Table 6. Effect of dietary illite supplementation on the meat quality of growing-finishing pigs

Item	CON1)	IL	SEM	p-value
TBARS	3.69	3.74	0.29	0.925
Meat color
L*	55.16	55.69	1.58	0.766
a*	16.05	16.52	0.72	0.584
b*	6.14	6.23	0.66	0.903
Sensory evaluation
Color	3.2	2.9	0.2	0.189
Firmness	3.1	3.3	0.2	0.088
Marbling	2.6	2.3	0.2	0.435
Cooking loss (%)	30.3	30.7	0.9	0.795
Drip loss (%)
d1	1.39	1.75	0.66	0.616
d3	2.61	2.98	0.59	0.591
d5	4.07	3.94	0.50	0.853
d7	5.75a	5.56b	0.01	< .0001

CON, basal diet; IL, 0.5% illite.
Means in the same row with different superscripts differ (p < 0.05).
TBARS, thiobarbituric acid reactive substances.