Due to inconsistency in trends for addition of NaCl and processing/storage conditions observed in Studies I and II, Study III was conducted to compare fresh and heated samples without confounding effects of treatment. Table 4 shows a steady significant increase in PVs of fresh/stored (4 oC) samples for 0 to 4 d when r measured after 30 min. However, PVs for heated/stored samples e remained generally at 0 with a slight increase at days 0 and 2, much less than the effect reported by other investigators (Muik Gheisari 2011; Kashyap and others 2012)