Table 4. Meat quality traits WHD meat by feeding diets
Cut | Cooking loss (%) | pH | Shear force (kgf) |
CD1) | ED | CD | ED | CD | ED |
Loin | 24.06 ± 6.33 | 22.18 ± 4.14 | 5.57 ± 0.07 | 5.56 ± 0.07 | 2.07 ± 0.13 | 2.14 ± 0.11 |
Ham | 27.57 ± 3.26 | 27.23 ± 17.50 | 5.65 ± 0.09 | 5.68 ± 0.14 | 3.41 ± 0.37 | 3.86 ± 0.21 |
Belly | 9.33 ± 1.86a | 7.16 ± 1.93b | 6.21 ± 0.14 | 6.20 ± 0.15 | NM | NM |
CD (control diet), pigs were fed a basal diet; ED (experiment diet), pigs were fed a basal diet + 4% lysine, isoleucine, methionine, threonine, valine and tryptophan during growing phase and supplemented with 0.1% chromium picolinate during finishing phase.
Means within a row with different superscripts are significantly different (p < 0.05).
WHD, Woori heukdon; NM, not measured.