Table 4. Moisture content, water activity, and shear force in semi-dried restructured jerky prepared with loquat leaf extract (LE) and ascorbic acid (AA) during storage

Treatment	Storage (d)
Treatment	1	20	45	90		135	180
Moisture content (%)
Control	45.47±0.33^a	44.70±0.19^ab	44.20±0.40^bc	43.72±0.24^Cc		43.67±0.17^c	42.53±0.20^Dd
AA	45.29±0.16^a	44.97±0.28^ab	44.97±0.09^ab	44.54±0.13^Abc		44.23±0.12^c	43.70±0.14^ABd
LE 0.15	45.11±0.16^a	44.93±0.16^ab	44.81±0.55^abc	44.21±0.07^ABbc		44.06±0.05^c	43.13±0.02^Cd
LE 0.15-AA	44.81±0.28^a	44.61±0.14^ab	44.49±0.12^ab	44.33±0.10^Aabc		44.24±0.11^bc	43.90±0.17^Ac
LE 0.3	44.99±0.30^a	44.67±0.15^a	44.57±0.22^a	43.87±0.09^BCb		43.55±0.30^b	43.35±0.20^BCb
LE 0.3-AA	44.71±0.05	44.63±0.28	44.24±0.47	44.09±0.14^ABC		44.00±0.26	44.16±0.06^A
Water activity
Control	0.890±0.001^a	0.888±0.003^Aa	0.886±0.001^a	0.886±0.002^Aa		0.869±0.002^b	0.860±0.001^Ec
AA	0.884±0.001^a	0.887±0.001^Aa	0.885±0.001^a	0.874±0.002^Bb		0.872±0.001^b	0.862±0.000^Dc
LE 0.15	0.882±0.003^A	0.880±0.000^BCa	0.883±0.002^a	0.874±0.002^Bb		0.872±0.000^b	0.864±0.000^Cc
LE 0.15-AA	0.882±0.002^a	0.877±0.001^Cab	0.877±0.003^ab	0.872±0.001^Bbc		0.869±0.002^Bc	0.866±0.000^Bc
LE 0.3	0.886±0.000^a	0.883±0.001^ABa	0.885±0.003^a	0.874±0.003^Bb		0.874±0.002^b	0.868±0.000^Ab
LE 0.3-AA	0.884±0.002^a	0.882±0.006^ABa	0.884±0.002^A	0.877±0.002^Bab		0.870±0.001^Bc	0.868±0.000^ABc
Shear force (N)
Control	144.67±0.36^De	150.49±0.34^Dd	151.37±0.26^Cd	154.31±0.39^Ec		159.15±0.23^Cb	165.30±0.43^Ca
AA	145.33±0.36^Df	147.14±0.42^Ee	148.08±0.29^Dd	151.01±0.25^Fc		153.79±0.22^Db	157.00±0.31^Fa
LE 0.15	153.59±0.09^Cf	154.47±0.10^Ce	156.20±0.01^Bd	158.62±0.35^Cc		160.43±0.46^Bb	161.73±0.32^Da
LE 0.15-AA	154.97±0.33^Bd	155.72±0.29^Bcd	156.12±0.16^Bc	157.14±0.20^Db		158.80±0.31^Ca	159.37±0.41^Ea
LE 0.3	166.90±0.27^Ae	167.04±0.12^Ae	167.91±0.18^Ad	169.18±0.07^Bc		171.11±0.31^Ab	172.60±0.30^Aa
LE 0.3-AA	167.52±0.16^Ab	167.56±0.24^Ab	168.23±0.32^Ab	170.77±0.46^Aa		170.77±0.41^Aa	171.15±0.44^Ba
p-value	Storage	LE	AA	Storage×LE	Storage×AA	LE×AA	Storage×LE×AA
Moisture content	***	NS	**	NS	***	*	NS
Water activity	***	***	*	***	NS	NS	*
Shear force	***	***	***	***	***	***	***

All values are mean±SE of three replicates.
Control, no antioxidant; AA, added 0.05% ascorbic acid; LE 0.15, added 0.15 loquat leaf extract; LE 0.15-AA, added 0.15% loquat leaf extract and 0.05% ascorbic acid; LE 0.3, added 0.3% loquat leaf extract; LE0.3-AA, added 0.3% loquat leaf extract and 0.05% ascorbic acid.
Means sharing different letters in the same column are significantly different.
Means sharing different letters in the same row are significantly different.
p<0.05
p<0.01
p<0.001.
NS, no significance.