expressed as TBARS values in mg malonaldeldehyde Kg meat. A malonaldehyde standard curve was epared using TER. A Hanna pH meter HI120 (leighton buzzard,belfordshire,england) was used to measure the pH of 1 g samples of homogenized in 9 ml of distilled water using an ultra turrax T25 (janke & kunkel IKA-labortechnik).