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Table 2 Effects of dietary supplementations of corn and rice straw treated with urea on meat quality in semitendinosus, supraspinatus and longissimus lumborum muscles of lambs

From: Effects of corn supplementation on meat quality and fatty acid composition of Dorper lambs fed PKC-Urea treated rice straw

Muscles

Corn

SEM

P-value

T1 (0%)

T2 (5%)

T3 (10%)

Drip loss (%)

 ST

2.98

2.77

2.96

0.12

0.81

 SS

2.60

2.08

2.21

0.15

0.43

 LL

4.33ab

5.08a

3.69b

0.25

0.05

Cooking loss (%)

 ST

28.87ab

22.04b

31.75a

1.83

0.05

 SS

38.50a

29.92b

31.60b

1.39

0.001

 LL

29.91

24.15

28.93

1.40

0.21

Shear force (kg/cm2)

 ST

1.03

0.78

0.91

0.05

0.17

 SS

0.93a

0.45b

0.46b

0.11

0.001

 LL

1.36

0.84

1.10

0.07

0.14

pH of meat

 ST

5.82b

6.46a

5.98b

0.10

0.05

 SS

5.76b

6.11a

5.76ab

0.06

0.05

 LL

5.63

6.15

5.85

0.10

0.13

  1. a,bMeans in the same row with different superscripts are significantly different