Table 4. Meat quality characteristics of longissimus thoracis from finishing pigs supplemented with humic acid and blueberry leaf powders

Treatments
CON T1 T2 T3 T4 T5
pH 0 day 5.95±0.17a 5.75±0.14b 5.70±0.09b 5.61±0.11c 5.61±0.10c 5.59±0.12c
7 day 5.77±0.19a 5.63±0.13b 5.58±0.06bcd 5.56±0.04cd 5.61±0.05bc 5.52±0.11d
14 day 5.92±0.20a 5.78±0.05b 5.65±0.01c 5.55±0.06cd 5.60±0.02c 5.43±0.08d
Hunter color L 61.01±3.95a 61.54±4.22a 60.08±4.44ab 61.42±3.52a 61.85±4.61a 58.94±3.99b
a 5.89±1.83a 5.23±1.86a 5.16±1.48a 5.16±1.30a 5.27±1.57a 4.11±1.39b
b 9.86±1.12a 9.60±1.16a 9.41±1.04a 8.92±0.96bc 8.51±0.86cd 8.30±0.94d
Water holding capacity (%) 63.92±9.07 65.99±6.35 65.57±4.07 62.67±9.31 65.29±10.24 65.94±3.96
Drip loss (%) 2.19±0.65 2.26±0.92 2.61±0.84 2.98±0.77 2.43±0.7 3.52±1.36
Cooking loss (%) 22.53±2.51ab 21.44±3.33ab 20.36±7.51b 23.58±2.57a 23.01±3.16ab 22.22±2.65ab
Means in the same row with different letters are significantly different (p<0.05).
CON, no addition; T1, blueberry leaf powder 0.1%; T2, blueberry leaf powder 0.2%; T3, humic acid 2%; T4, humic acid 2%+blueberry leaf powder 0.1%; T5, humic acid 2%+blueberry leaf powder 0.2%.