A chicken flavor company based in Salt Lake City, UT supplied
the chicken-flavor base paste and powder for this experiment. For
proprietary reasons, the product manufacturer and the detail of
ingredients in the chicken bases are not further discussed in this
paper. To study the effect of salt on Salmonella survival, the bases
were formulated at 3 salt levels, specifically, regular salt, 45%
reduced-salt and 90% reduced-salt. The physicochemical characteristics
of the chicken base paste and powder treatments are