The sensory scores of off odour are summarised in Table 1.
They show that off odour intensity increased throughout storage in all samples, though not with the same intensity.
Control treatment reached the highest value, corresponding to extreme off odour, as early as 12 days after packaging.
The presence of rosemary, both alone and with ascorbic acid, extended the fresh meat odour storage time, which was scored as three even after 20 days of storage.
At that time, beef patties with rosemary were found to be different from patties subjected to any other treatment (P