The samples for sensory analysis were heat treated in the same
way as the samples for shear force. The panel consisted of 6 semitrained
panellists (two training sessions). The meat served to the
panel had room temperature (around 20 °C) and was served in
duplicates on three digit randomly coded plates. The attributes judged
were tenderness, juiciness and meat flavour. A category scale with
17 structured steps from 1 to 9 (1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, etc.) was used where 1
was low intensity and 9 was high intensity. The average of the two
replicates was used in the statistical analysis.