2.5. Determination of soaking, thawing, and cooking yield
Soaking yield and thawing yield were determined as following:
Soaking yield ¼ (Ws/W0) 100 (1)
Thawing yield ¼ (WTH/W0) 100 (2)
where W0, Ws, and WTH were shrimp weight before soaking, after
soaking, and after thawing, respectively. Thawed shrimps were
boiled in boiling water for 1 min, cooled immediately in ice water
and drained for 5 min (Chantarasataporn et al., 2013) at room
temperature (25±1
C). Cooking yield was calculated using:
Cooking yield ¼ (Wc/W0) 100 (3)
where Wc was shrimp weight after cooking. All analysis was conducted
in triplicate.