From each batch, 300 g of the meat mixture at 0 days and three sausages at 61 days were randomly collected from each batch. The sausage sample was minced, vacuum packed and frozen at 20 C
for moisture, lipid, free fatty acids and TBARS analyses. At 61 days,three sausages per batch were taken wrapped in aluminum foil,vacuum packed and stored at 80 C for volatile and aroma analysis.
In addition, three additional sausages were directly used for sensory analyses. All the results were expressed as the mean of three replicates per batch.