The reason for the rise in freezing point temperature with meat pH is unclear. We speculate that because meat pH has an effect on the water mobility and a higher pH reduces water mobility (Bertram,Andersen, & Andersen, 2007) that it is easier to align, nucleate and crystallise water molecules in high pH meat. Other reasons may include that normal pH meats have a higher amount of dissolved solutes, considering that muscles with lower ultimate pH have a higher concentration of lactic acid and are more likely to contain residual glycogen than high pH muscles (Young et al., 2004). The effect of other factors such as ionic concentration, viscosity of meat water, concentration of dissolved gases and oxidation–reduction potential(Rahman, 1995) on the difference in the freezing points of the high and low pH meats have not been determined in the present study and hence not discussed.