Quality of fried broiler chicken leg muscles stored at different temperatures.

Chicken leg pieces (60 g each). with optimized quantity of additives were fried in hydrogenated vegetable oil at 180°C for 8 min. The fried product was packed in paper-foil-polyethylene pouches (PFP) and stored under ambient (20 ± 5°C, 65-80% RH), refrigerator (5°C, 80% RH) and deep freezer (-18°C, 85-90% RH) conditions.