Table 1 Effects of feed processing on chicken breast meat quality from broiler diets with or without distiller’s dried grain with solubles (DDGS) for 21 d
Items | DDGS (g kg–1) | SEM | Feed processing (FP) | SEM | P-value |
0 | 200 | M | SP | EP | FP | D | FP×D |
Drip loss (%) | 26.9 | 27.0 | 0.26 | 27.4 | 27.0 | 26.5 | 0.32 | 0.120 | 0.875 | 0.777 |
Cooking loss (%) | 15.6 | 15.7 | 0.34 | 16.1 | 15.6 | 15.3 | 0.42 | 0.443 | 0.783 | 0.615 |
Shear force (kg·f) | 2.18 | 2.27 | 0.02 | 2.15b | 2.23ab | 2.29a | 0.03 | <0.01 | <0.01 | 0.257 |
CIE L* | 52.7 | 51.8 | 0.51 | 51.4b | 53.6a | 51.7ab | 0.62 | 0.037 | 0.249 | 0.020 |
CIE a* | 5.45 | 5.76 | 0.31 | 5.38 | 5.55 | 5.90 | 0.37 | 0.612 | 0.471 | 0.872 |
CIE b* | 15.5 | 15.3 | 0.45 | 14.9 | 15.4 | 15.9 | 0.55 | 0.433 | 0.807 | 0.502 |
pH 15min | 6.66 | 6.73 | 0.04 | 6.71 | 6.69 | 6.71 | 0.05 | 0.935 | 0.245 | 0.653 |
Values with different superscripts with in a same row significantly differ (p<0.05).
M, mash; SP, simple pellet; EP, expanded pellet; SEM, standard error of means; FP, feed processing; D, distiller’s dried grain with solubles.