Table 3 Water activity (aw) and total aerobic plate counts (TPC) of bone-in shell loin by different dry-aging condition
| Item | Condition | Dry-aging period (d) |
| 0 | 20 | 40 | 60 |
| aw | T1 | 0.98±0.00 | 0.98±0.00 | 0.97±0.00 | 0.97A±0.00 |
| T2 | 0.97±0.02 | 0.98±0.00 | 0.96±0.01 | 0.96B±0.00 |
| T3 | 0.97±0.01 | 0.97±0.01 | 0.97±0.00 | 0.96B±0.00 |
| T4 | 0.98±0.00 | 0.98±0.00 | 0.97±0.00 | 0.97A±0.00 |
| pH | T1 | 5.43±0.03 | 5.47±0.04 | 5.44±0.07 | 5.58±0.02 |
| T2 | 5.40b±0.03 | 5.50b±0.02 | 5.67a±0.02 | 5.76a±0.06 |
| T3 | 5.45b±0.04 | 5.47b±0.02 | 5.64a±0.02 | 5.61a±0.03 |
| T4 | 5.38±0.03 | 5.49±0.02 | 5.51±0.12 | 5.54±0.02 |
| TPC | T1 | 2.53±0.15 | 3.94A±0.62 | 3.95A±0.12 | 3.86A±0.14 |
| T2 | 1.68±0.44 | 2.17B±0.16 | 2.55B±0.16 | 1.38B±0.43 |
| T3 | 2.29±0.17 | 1.82B±0.29 | 1.63C±0.15 | 2.09B±0.32 |
| T4 | 1.94±0.50 | 1.95B±0.51 | 2.91B±0.20 | 3.49A±0.18 |
Treatments are the same as Table 1.
All values are mean±standard error.
a–c Means in the same row within the same dry aging condition with different letters are significantly different (p<0.05).
A,B Means in the same column within the same dry aging period with different letters are significantly different (p<0.05).