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.