Effect of the dietary supplementation with extracts of chestnut wood and grape pomace on performance and jejunum response in female and male broiler chickens at different ages

Table 4 Rheological traits and lipid oxidation status (TBARs) of the pectoralis major muscle in chickens slaughtered at 45 days of age

Items	Diet (D)			Sex (S)		P-value			MSE
	C	CN	GP	Females	Males	D	S	D×S	MSE
P. major, n	48	48	48	72	72
pH	5.99	5.99	5.95	5.94	6.02	0.56	<0.01	0.99	0.16
L*	50.4	50.2	49.7	49.9	50.1	0.66	0.63	0.10	2.40
a*	-0.04	-0.07	-0.15	-0.03	-0.15	0.56	0.23	0.20	0.54
b*	10.4	10.3	10.2	10.5	10.1	0.70	0.09	0.65	1.38
P. major, n	24	24	24	36	36
Cooking losses, %	12.0	11.7	11.8	11.4	12.3	0.99	0.65	0.92	12.4
Shear force, kg/g	4.17	4.06	4.30	4.17	4.18	0.39	0.96	0.72	0.83
TBARs, mg MDA/kg	0.083	0.080	0.075	0.078	0.080	0.38	0.74	0.22	0.021

MSE root mean square error. C, control diet. CN, control diet supplemented with 0.2% chestnut wood extracts. GP, control diet supplemented with 0.2% grape pomace extracts

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