Table 2. pH, water holding capacity (WHC), cooking loss (CL), thaw loss(TL) of the breast and thigh meat from commercial broiler, Korean native chicken and duck

Traits Breast Thigh
Broiler KNC1) Duck Broiler KNC1) Duck
pH 5.83±0.00b 5.61±0.01c 6.01±0.01a 6.56±0.01a 6.22±0.01c 6.50±0.01b
WHC (%) 80.99±8.17a 53.78±5.73b 65.33±11.74ab 67.11±3.94 62.21±1.43 66.32±3.03
CL (%) 24.80±2.81b 24.32±2.25b 36.30±0.31a 30.74±3.64 26.14±3.24 31.99±0.94
TL (%) 11.46±0.70a 6.29±1.35b 8.46±2.70b 8.02±1.99a 2.52±0.49c 4.28±0.60b
Korean native chicken.
Means with different letters within the same row are significantly different (p<0.05).