Table 2. Effects of dietary Acremonium terricola culture supplementation on the meat color, water loss rate and shear force of Hortobágy goose meat

Item	Muscle	Sex	Control	Low dose	Moderate dose	High dose	SEM	p-value
								ANOVA	Linear	Quadratic
Meat color	Pectoralis major	♂ (n = 12)	81.66 ± 4.47	80.25 ± 5.75	82.96 ± 3.21	84.22 ± 3.23	0.944	0.517	0.532	0.188
		♀ (n = 12)	83.58 ± 5.89	82.67 ± 5.12	84.17 ± 1.74	84.94 ± 4.23	0.947	0.877	0.704	0.488
		♂ + ♀ (n = 24)	82.62 ± 5.03	81.46 ± 5.29	83.57 ± 2.51	84.58 ± 3.57	0.672	0.412	0.460	0.139
	Thigh	♂	85.39 ± 3.83	85.44 ± 1.44	87.01 ± 3.23	87.63 ± 4.19	0.722	0.644	0.947	1.221
		♀	85.27 ± 3.55	87.02 ± 4.88	87.50 ± 2.61	88.99 ± 1.22	0.751	0.396	0.582	0.179
		♂ + ♀	85.33 ± 3.48	86.23 ± 3.49	87.25 ± 2.78	88.31 ± 3.00	0.518	0.202	0.718	0.056
Water loss rate (%)	Pectoralis major	♂	32.88 ± 5.34	30.95 ± 4.02	33.18 ± 4.15	30.65 ± 4.68	0.974	0.753	0.727	0.998
		♀	27.34 ± 2.92	28.46 ± 6.40	31.45 ± 3.44	30.23 ± 5.34	1.038	0.541	0.636	0.184
		♂ + ♀	30.11 ± 5.00	29.70 ± 5.20	32.32 ± 3.71	30.44 ± 4.74	0.731	0.615	0.922	0.328
	Thigh	♂	28.75 ± 4.27	26.21 ± 4.69	28.91 ± 2.37	27.84 ± 4.02	0.845	0.690	0.417	0.617
		♀	26.33 ± 1.21	25.82 ± 3.46	28.26 ± 1.96	26.21 ± 3.10	0.574	0.470	0.924	0.334
		♂ + ♀	27.54 ± 3.22	26.01 ± 3.89	28.59 ± 2.08	27.03 ± 3.49	0.514	0.365	0.513	0.323
Shear force (N)	Pectoralis major	♂	27.00 ± 1.53	28.31 ± 3.25	27.89 ± 2.58	25.09 ± 1.43	0.556	0.172	0.167	0.280
		♀	25.26 ± 2.68	25.37 ± 2.04	26.20 ± 1.85	26.29 ± 1.97	0.456	0.819	0.956	0.353
		♂ + ♀	26.13 ± 2.25	26.84 ± 2.99	27.04 ± 2.30	25.69 ± 1.74	0.370	0.554	0.303	0.873
	Thigh	♂	19.45 ± 1.08	21.14 ± 2.28	20.28 ± 1.91	20.74 ± 2.60	0.444	0.607	0.277	0.815
		♀	19.52 ± 1.32	19.55 ± 1.91	20.37 ± 1.86	19.45 ± 0.91	0.330	0.762	0.750	0.599
		♂ + ♀	19.49 ± 1.14	20.34 ± 2.15	20.33 ± 1.78	20.10 ± 1.96	0.279	0.686	0.277	0.607

Control, low dose, moderate dose and high dose represent Hortobágy geese supplemented with 0 g, 3 g, 5 g, and 7 g Acremonium terricola culture per kg of the basal diet, respectively.
The average n values for ♂ (males), ♀ (females), and ♂ + ♀ (both sexes) were 12, 12, and 24, respectively.