Table 2 showed that the increasing of
soaking time was followed by the increasing
of panelist’s favorite to meat tenderness.
According to Rogers et al., papain was found
to have more profound influence on this
palatability15. According to the result of
research of Smalling et al., cured ham from
pigs with treatment of antemortem injection
of papain produced higher tenderness score16.
For the flavor, 40 and 50 minutes soaking
treatment with pineapple juice produced taste
panelist preferred. This was caused by the
longer soaking which would occur further
hydrolysis from meat protein which produced
bitter taste. In a similar study by Smalling et
al., had scored that flavor dry cured hams
without treatment was prefer than treatment
with the papain16.