Table 2. Yield and water-holding capacity of sous-vide and oven-dry cooked pork loin hams formulated with various sugars

Trait Control (without sugar) Treatment (w/w) Significance of p value
0.5% molasses 0.5% allulose 0.5% xylose
Pumping yield (%) 98.50±0.09 98.45±0.47 98.99±0.31 98.62±0.29 NS1)
1st cooking yield (%) 72.02±0.50b 78.13±1.72a 78.11±1.14a 72.30±0.74b <0.001
2nd cooking yield (%) 85.95±1.90 84.29±0.63 84.39±0.50 82.89±0.74 NS
Final yield (%) 70.07±3.74 74.31±6.15 74.82±3.30 72.18±3.42 NS
The salt concentration of all treatments was equally fixed as 2% (w/w) with the 15% pumping ratio.
Means sharing the same superscript letter within a row are not significantly different at p<0.05 by Duncan’s multiple range test.
NS: non-significance (p>0.05).