Table 1. Correlation between total viable counts (TVC), total volatile base nitrogen (TVB-N) and thiobarbituric acid reactive substance (TBARS) in each sample

Treatment Chilling Supercooling Superchilling Sub-freezing
TVB-N Correlation coefficient 0.992 0.994 0.934 0.927
Significance 0.081 0.006 0.066 0.073
TBARS Correlation coefficient 1.000 0.929 0.855 0.780
Significance 0.019 0.071 0.145 0.220