Table 3 Color and pH of pork skin snack with various salt concentrations of the dry- and wet-salting

Traits Con Wet-salting Dry-salting SEM
3W 6W 0.3D 0.6D
Color Lightness 56.30±0.30 60.02±0.89 58.55±0.54 56.64±0.70 64.60±0.23 0.60
Redness 7.70±0.21b 5.10±0.34c 8.27±0.09b 5.46±0.16c 11.18±0.39a 0.44
Yellowness 18.22±0.21c 17.48±0.40c 21.68±0.31b 17.80±0.25c 27.48±0.52a 0.83
pH 6.65±0.01b 7.13±0.02a 6.72±0.02b 6.67±0.01b 6.47±0.04c 0.06
Data are shown as means±SE.
a-d Means in the same row with different letters are significantly different (p<0.05).
3W and 6W means the wet-salting with 3% and 6% saline solution.
0.3D and 0.6D means the dry-salting with 0.3% and 0.6% salt.