Breast and thigh chicken meats were cut in small pieces and then minced, separately, using an electric mincer. The properly homogenised meat served as the raw meat to prepare 24 patties, in total, for each meat type. The meat patties were prepared using a plastic box of the following size: 11.5 × 7.5 × 4 cm (a total surface of 325 cm2). The films without and with antioxidant, control (C) and antioxidant active film (AP) respectively, were carefully placed within the described plastic box and 300 g of minced meat from breast or thigh were put inside. The meat was overwrapped with the film and then vacuum packed in plastic bags (PA/PE 20/70, 32 oxygen cm3/m2 d bar at 23 °C and 75% RH, SFK, Hvidovre, Denmark) at 99% vacuum.