Comparison of Fatty Acid Composition between Female and Male Japanese Quail Meats

Table 1

The descriptive statistics for proximate composition of female and male quail meats.

Properties	Female											Male
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
pH	6.25	6.21	6.10	6.26	6.12	6.02	6.24	6.13	6.38	6.37	^a	6.27	6.39	6.36	5.97	6.13	5.87	6.30	6.26	6.08	6.53	^a
Moisture (%)	52.77	55.19	52.82	53.03	53.51	49.00	54.07	48.90	51.21	50.84	^a	52.18	44.90	51.93	50.84	46.32	58.41	40.71	55.34	55.82	52.08	^a
Fat (%)	1.76	0.96	0.90	0.95	1.73	2.06	1.35	2.01	0.96	1.45	^a	1.13	1.82	1.26	2.18	1.04	2.28	1.48	1.75	1.86	1.55	^a
Ash (%)	0.44	1.65	1.06	1.89	1.59	1.29	0.87	0.96	1.60	1.49	^a	1.00	1.87	1.14	1.68	1.48	1.18	1.23	2.18	1.52	1.10	^a

Values with same superscripts indicate nonsignificance with difference between female and male quail in the same row (p > 0.05).