Effects of Combined Supplementation of Conjugated Linoleic Acid, Methionine Chromium, Betaine, and Cysteamine on Meat Tenderness of Rats

Table 3

Effects of BET, CLA, Met-Cr, and CS as well as their interactions on some important meat quality indices.

Treatment	IMF (%)	TC (mg/g)	SC (mg/g)	Fat content among muscle cells	Lipid droplet content in muscle cells
1	6.55^a,b	4.71^a	1.24	0.0024^a,b	0.0559^a
2	8.00^b	4.91^a	1.41	0.0035^a,b	0.0114^c
3	6.27^a,b	4.14^a,b	1.63	0.0033^a,b	0.03379^a,b
4	6.51^a,b	3.91^a,b	1.18	0.0044^a,b	0.0439^a,b,c
5	7.82^b	3.32^b	1.14	0.0055^a	0.0162^b,c
6	7.83^b	3.70^a,b	1.13	0.0031^a,b	0.0404^a,b,c
7	7.30^a,b	3.35^b	1.26	0.0038^a,b	0.0291^a,b,c
8	6.80^a,b	3.88^a,b	1.28	0.0015^b	0.0372^a,b,c
9	6.15^a	4.85^a	1.42	0.0041^a,b	0.0409^a,b,c
10	6.15^a	3.88^a,b	1.16	0.0020^b	0.0281^a,b,c
11	6.18^a	3.77^a,b	1.44	0.0034^a,b	0.0375^a,b,c
12	6.93^a,b	3.75^a,b	1.62	0.0038^a,b	0.0244^a,b,c
13	6.50^a,b	4.09^a,b	1.27	0.0031^a,b	0.0194^b,c
SEM	0.1882	0.1433	0.0471	0.0003	0.0030

^a,b,cMeans within the same column with different letters differ significantly ( for lowercase and for capital letter). IMF: intramuscular fat content; TC: total collagen; SC: soluble collagen; SEM: standard error of means.