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Occurence (sic) of a pink color in cooked turkey breast Girard, Benoît

Abstract

A peculiar problem involving cooked turkey products is the appearance of a pink color which consumers often associate with undercooking. Measurements of redness over a period of 4 days of storage were taken on 2 mm thick breast slices from 12 or 18 week old turkeys cooked at selected temperatures of 65, 75, 85 and 95 °C. An analysis of variance indicated that, unlike the age effect, temperature, storage time and their interaction were statistically significant at p

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