Table 1. Cooking loss and color of pork emulsion sausage formulated with various spinach powder levels
| Traits | Spinach powder (%) |
| 0 (Control) | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Cooking loss (%) | 10.24 ± 0.54b | 7.61 ± 0.30c | 9.07 ± 1.16bc | 12.44 ± 0.68a |
| Color | Uncooked | CIE L* | 69.06 ± 0.77a | 60.53 ± 0.20b | 54.56 ± 1.47c | 52.20 ± 1.45d |
| CIE a* | 15.23 ± 3.29a | 2.96 ± 0.66b | 0.53 ± 0.55bc | ‒2.03 ± 0.81c |
| CIE b* | 15.93 ± 1.50b | 22.00 ± 0.70a | 22.06 ± 2.25a | 22.93 ± 1.40a |
| Cooked | CIE L* | 73.86 ± 0.79a | 58.60 ± 0.70b | 51.66 ± 1.00c | 49.30 ± 1.70d |
| CIE a* | 9.00 ± 0.30a | ‒0.33 ± 0.25b | ‒2.63 ± 0.30c | ‒3.43 ± 0.41d |
| CIE b* | 19.10 ± 0.98b | 25.20 ± 0.65a | 25.23 ± 0.55a | 23.26 ± 1.86a |
All values are mean ± SD.
Mean in the same row with different letters are significantly different (p<0.05).