Effect of mixed hay supplementation during fattening on carcass traits and meat quality of Hanwoo steers

Table 5 Meat quality traits of Hanwoo steers fed with different supplementary hay

	RS	MH	TH	SEM	P value
pH_ultimate	5.60	5.63	5.60	0.01	0.41
CIE L*	42.89	44.20	42.71	0.60	0.65
CIE a*	20.80^ab	21.32^a	18.82^b	0.33	0.02
CIE b*	10.39^a	10.83^a	9.46^b	0.18	<0.01
Drip loss (%)	6.55	6.68	5.09	0.31	0.16
Water-holding capacity (%)	55.36	56.79	56.10	1.08	0.13
Cooking loss (%)	31.25	31.57	30.82	0.22	0.24
Shear force (kg)	6.21^a	4.40^b	4.80^ab	0.25	0.04
Hardness (kg)	7.44^a	5.75^b	6.26^ab	0.23	0.03
Springiness (cm)	0.51	0.51	0.51	0.01	0.62
Cohesiveness	0.43^a	0.36^b	0.42^a	0.01	0.02
Gumminess (kg)	3.22^a	2.10^b	2.62^ab	0.13	0.02
Chewiness (kg.cm)	1.62^a	1.06^b	1.34^ab	0.06	0.02
Resilience	0.25^a	0.19^b	0.22^a	0.01	<0.01

RS rice straw, MH: mixed hay, TH: timothy hay
SEM standard error of the means
Different superscripts ^a~b in the same row indicate differences among diet groups (P < 0.05)