Cooking loss and total weight loss were significantly affected by phosphate addition (p < 0.001 for both variables) and by the type of cooking treatment (p < 0.001 for both variables). Contrarily, moisture content values were affected by the interaction between phosphates and the type of cooking (p < 0.001), so that sous-vide cooked samples with upward amounts of added phosphates showed increasing levels of moisture, while the moisture content of oven roasted samples remained unaffected by the addition of phosphate content. Water-holding capacity (WHC) was affected by the type of cooking treatment (p < 0.001), 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