The results for pH, color, cook loss, shear force and lipid oxidation
(TBARS) are shown in Table 3. The addition of all marinade solutions
caused the reduction in pH values. The initial pH of the beef before marination
was 5.41 ± 0.11. In general lower values of pH were reached for
the samples treated with 2% salt and 2% citric acid (HSHA) (Table 3).
HSLA samples showed higher (p b 0.05) pH values than HSHA.