a*: red-green component; b*: yellow-blue component; L*: lightness. HP: hydrostatic pressure; PEF: pulsed electric field. Differences are represented by superscript lower-case letters and values in the same row with the same letters do not have statistical significance (P > 0.05)
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Acknowledgments
Acknowledgements are given to the Universidade Católica Portuguesa by providing financial support to CBQF Associate Laboratory under the UID/Multi/50016/2021 FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) project and to Aveiro University and Laboratório Associado LAQV-REQUIMTE (UIDB/50006/2020) through national funds and, where applicable, co-financed by the FEDER, within the PT2020 Partnership Agreement.
Author contributions
LMGC: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. SCS: Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing—review & editing. MM: Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing—review & editing, Funding acquisition. EMCA: Conceptualization, Supervision, Funding acquisition, Validation, Investigation, Writing—review & editing, Resources. JAS and MP: Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Investigation, Writing—review & editing, Resources. All authors read and approved the submitted version.
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Funding
Authors Luís M.G. Castro [SFRH/BD/136882/2018, COVID/BD/152756/2022] and Manuela Machado [SFRH/BD/136701/2018] are grateful for the financial support provided by FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) through the Doctoral Grants. Author Elisabete M.C. Alexandre is also grateful for the financial support of this work funded by national funds (OE), through FCT, I.P., in the scope of the framework contract foreseen in the numbers 4, 5 and 6 of the article 23, of the Decree-Law 57/2016, of August 29, changed by Law 57/2017, of July 19. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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