Table 3 Color characteristics¹⁾ of maesil chungs prepared with different maesil cultivars

Maesil cultivar	L ²⁾	a ²⁾	b ²⁾
Namgo	27.0±0.1^c	9.5±0.7^a	6.9±0.1^a
Shirogaka	27.5±0.0^a	9.8±0.9^a	5.5±0.2^b
Chunmae	27.6±0.1^a	9.9±0.2^a	5.4±0.1^c
Okyoung	27.2±0.0^b	10.5±0.8^a	5.3±0.3^bc
Oshuku	26.8±0.1^c	9.4±0.7^a	6.6±0.2^a

¹⁾Mean values of three replicate measurements; Values sharing the same lowercase letters within columns are not significantly different at p<0.05.
²⁾ L, a, and b correspond to lightness, redness, and yellowness, respectively.