The result showed that the different treatments of alpha lipoic acid,
alpha tocopherol acetate and oxidized oil have highly significant effect
on the water activity of antioxidant enriched broiler leg meat nuggets
and patties. Water activity of leg nuggets in T4
(0.84 ± 0.04) and in T5
was (0.80 ± 0.03) at 0 day storage interval. The water activity of the
nuggets and patties decreases and product move towards hardness with
the passage of the time. This result correlate with the result of Ruiz et
al. [35] who studied that water activity of crusted dry-cured loin and
non-crusted dry-cured loin decrease and the texture of the product go
towards hardness with advancement of the storage period.