The effect of the experimental diets on carcass and meat color, as
well as on pH, WHC, CL and texture parameters in the meat of the
longissimus muscle, is shown in Table 4. No statistical differences
(P N 0.05) were found in the color of the carcasses of rabbits fed with
the different experimental diets. Regarding the meat color, Dw20 diet
had a higher a* value compared with the other experimental diets (on
av. +1.50 ± 0.17 points; P b 0.05). Moreover, dietary inclusion of
corn DDGS reported a quadratic effect on a* value (P b 0.05). Similarly,
there was a linear decrease of b* value of the meat with corn DDGS
level inclusion.