The results indicated that samples manufactured with uSTP and
eSTP had the lowest (p b 0.05) CL among all phosphate treatment
groups (Table 4).
Our results are in agreement with those of Craig,Bowers, and Seib (1991) who also found a decrease in CL in ground turkey meat with added STP.
Lee, Hendricks, and Cornforth (1998) reported that cooking yield was increased in restructured beef samples treated with STP due to increased meat pH.
It is known that there is a clear tendency for thewater-holding capacity to increasewith increasing meat pH (Thomsen & Zeuthen, 1988).