Table 4 Sensory evaluation 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
Appearance 9.25±0.25a 8.42±0.20b 9.33±0.21a 9.33±0.33a 8.25±0.25b 0.14
Flavor 8.33±0.33 8.31±0.34 8.38±0.28 8.80±0.12 8.75±0.31 0.14
Sensory crispiness 9.17±0.17a 8.33±0.21b 9.14±0.17a 9.17±0.31a 8.17±0.31b 0.13
Off-flavor 8.50±0.32 8.40±0.24 8.40±0.40 8.56±0.18 8.63±0.18 0.10
Taste 9.00±0.41ab 8.67±0.33ab 9.33±0.33a 9.40±0.24a 8.30±0.20b 0.16
Overall acceptability 9.25±0.25a 8.80±0.20ab 9.38±0.24a 9.30±0.30a 8.17±0.29b 0.14
Data are shown as means±SE.
a, b 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.