Table 8. Expressible moisture and cooking loss of chicken sausages with various levels of salt and sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP)

Variables Treatments
TRT6 TRT7 TRT8 TRT9 TRT10 TRT11
Expressible moisture (%) 41.3 ± 1.75a 41.7 ± 1.83a 40.6 ± 0.77a 30.8 ± 1.93b 33.9 ± 3.45b 22.4 ± 1.17c
Cooking loss (g) 7.30 ± 0.75a 5.58 ± 0.66b 4.04 ± 0.64c 2.39 ± 0.49d 2.81 ± 0.29d 0.34 ± 0.11e
Mean with different superscripts in a same row are different (p < 0.05).
TRT6, Treatment 6 (0% salt, 0% STPP); TRT7, Treatment 7 (0% salt, 0.3% STPP); TRT8, Treatment 8 (0.8% salt, 0% STPP); TRT9, Treatment 9 (0.8% salt, 0.3% STPP); TRT10, Treatment 10 (1.8% salt, 0% STPP); TRT11, Treatment 11 (1.8% salt, 0.3% STPP).