Water holding capacity was measured as weight loss during chill
storage, thawing and cooking and expressed as a percentage of initial
weight. Samples were not repacked before freezing and thus freezing
loss also included purge. Because the same cooking method was used
for shear force and sensory analyses, loss (purge or thaw, cooking and
total loss) was calculated as the combined mean value within
treatment for the 4 samples used for shear force and sensory analyses
(2 replicates each).