Table 3. Effects of dietary Acremonium terricola culture supplementation on the pH value of Hortobágy goose meat

Muscle	Time point	Sex	Control	Low dose	Moderate dose	High dose	SEM	p-value
								ANOVA	Linear	Quadratic
Pectoralis major	pH at 0 h postmortem	♂	5.95 ± 0.07	5.85 ± 0.11	5.82 ± 0.16	5.75 ± 0.15	0.031	0.118	0.370	0.049
		♀	5.83 ± 0.10	5.84 ± 0.16	5.85 ± 0.19	5.91 ± 0.18	0.033	0.876	0.906	0.554
		♂ + ♀	5.89 ± 0.10	5.85 ± 0.14	5.83 ± 0.16	5.83 ± 0.17	0.022	0.746	0.515	0.407
	pH at 12 h postmortem	♂	5.73 ± 0.06	5.77 ± 0.26	5.82 ± 0.27	5.97 ± 0.22	0.049	0.350	0.924	0.151
		♀	5.59 ± 0.10Bc	5.85 ± 0.20ABb	6.08 ± 0.10Aa	5.77 ± 0.17Bbc	0.050	0.001	0.002	0.008
		♂ + ♀	5.66 ± 0.11Bb	5.81 ± 0.22ABab	5.95 ± 0.23Aa	5.87 ± 0.21ABa	0.035	0.021	0.073	0.009
	pH at 24 h postmortem	♂	5.98 ± 0.05	6.03 ± 0.19	6.01 ± 0.15	6.04 ± 0.13	0.028	0.896	0.697	0.747
		♀	6.00 ± 0.11	5.99 ± 0.12	5.96 ± 0.09	6.05 ± 0.13	0.024	0.649	0.616	0.859
		♂ + ♀	5.99 ± 0.08	6.01 ± 0.15	5.98 ± 0.12	6.05 ± 0.12	0.018	0.640	0.986	0.701
Thigh	pH at 0 h postmortem	♂	6.21 ± 0.09	6.15 ± 0.09	6.08 ± 0.22	6.04 ± 0.06	0.031	0.181	0.568	0.046
		♀	6.26 ± 0.12	6.07 ± 0.10	6.04 ± 0.18	6.09 ± 0.15	0.035	0.104	0.043	0.139
		♂ + ♀	6.24 ± 0.11Aa	6.11 ± 0.10ABb	6.06 ± 0.19Bb	6.06 ± 0.11Bb	0.023	0.016	0.045	0.011
	pH at 12 h postmortem	♂	6.12 ± 0.11Aa	6.01 ± 0.09Aa	5.80 ± 0.13Bc	5.95 ± 0.09ABb	0.034	0.003	0.040	0.001
		♀	6.13 ± 0.14A	5.79 ± 0.22B	5.73 ± 0.13B	5.92 ± 0.17AB	0.049	0.009	0.002	0.103
		♂ + ♀	6.12 ± 0.12Aa	5.90 ± 0.20Bbc	5.77 ± 0.13Bc	5.94 ± 0.13Bb	0.030	＜0.001	＜0.001	0.002
	pH at 24 h postmortem	♂	6.21 ± 0.16	6.16 ± 0.13	6.11 ± 0.23	6.14 ± 0.07	0.034	0.808	0.598	0.427
		♀	6.36 ± 0.10Aa	6.17 ± 0.05Bb	6.16 ± 0.09Bb	6.24 ± 0.05ABb	0.024	0.004	0.001	0.089
		♂ + ♀	6.28 ± 0.15	6.16 ± 0.09	6.14 ± 0.17	6.19 ± 0.08	0.022	0.084	0.032	0.146

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.
Means within a row with different superscripts differ significantly (p < 0.05).
Means within a row with different superscripts differ extremely significantly (p < 0.01).