Table 5. The content of heavy metals after ripening of Gouda cheese coated with loess
(mg/L)
| Sample | Pb | Cd | As | Hg | Sn | Cr | Cu |
| CG1) | -2) | - | - | - | - | - | 0.142±0.001c |
| VG | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.079±0.001g |
| LG | 0.005±0.0063)4) | - | - | - | - | - | 0.152±0.000b |
| RG | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.134±0.001d |
| YG | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.116±0.000e |
| WG | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.183±0.001a |
| BG | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.089±0.001f |
1)CG, Gouda cheese of ripening without coating; VG, Gouda cheese of ripening after vacuum packaged; LG, Gouda cheese of laterite coating ripening ; RG, Gouda cheese of red loess coating ripening; YG, Gouda cheese of yellow ocher coating ripening; WG, Gouda cheese of white clay coating ripening; BG, Gouda cheese of black soil coating ripening.
2)Not detected.
3)Means in the same column followed by different uppercase letters are significantly different (p<0.05, a>b>c>d>e>f>g).
4)All values are mean±SD.