Weight loss, moisture content and water holding capacity
Results for cooking loss, total weight loss and moisture content of
phosphate added and phosphate free lamb loins, sous-vide are shown in Table 2. Cooking loss and total weight loss were significantly affected by phosphate addition (p b 0.001 for both
variables) and by the type of cooking treatment (p b 0.001 for both
variables). Contrarily, moisture content values were affected by the interaction
between phosphates and the type of cooking (p b 0.001), so
that sous-vide cooked samples with upward amounts of added phosphates
showed increasing levels of moisture while expressible moisture
was affected by the interaction between cooking treatment and phosphate
addition (p= 0.037). Surprisingly, there was no significant effect
of phosphate addition on water holding capacity.
Overall, it seems that phosphate addition could be a potential
approach for reducing cooking loss in whole muscle lamb cuts, for
sous-vide cooking methods. In fact, by adding
phosphates, the cooking loss was reduced around 70% in sous-vied
cooked lamb loins