Table 2. Physicochemical properties of the python fat in liquid state

Time (min)	Temperature (°C)
Time (min)	160	180	200
L^* (lightness)
30	44.93±0.22^Cc1)	44.64±0.10^Ca	44.66±0.01^Cb
60	41.81±1.45^Bb	43.46±0.05^Bc	25.26±0.08^Ba
90	41.46±0.22^Ac	31.95±0.12^Ab	23.72±0.07^Aa
a^* (green/red value)
30	−1.36±0.03^Ac	−1.89±0.01^Aa	−1.54±0.02^Ab
60	−1.22±0.17^Ba	−1.22±0.01^Ba	0.94±0.07^Bb
90	−0.98±0.02^Cb	2.37±0.06^Cc	1.12±0.02^Ca
b^* (blue/yellow value)
30	5.09±0.06^Aa	9.61±0.04^Bb	11.91±0.01^Cc
60	9.76±0.02^Bc	5.22±0.02^Aa	5.55±0.12^Ab
90	14.08±0.02^Cb	16.82±0.19^Cc	5.81±0.08^Ba
Acid value (mg KOH/g)
30	0.2806±0.00021^Ab	0.2526±0.0002^Aa	0.3366±0.0001^Ac
60	0.3086±0.00021^Ba	0.3366±0.0000^Bb	0.4206±0.0004^Bc
90	0.3646±0.00015^Ca	0.3892±0.0057^Cb	0.4766±0.0003^Cc
Saponification value (mg KOH/g)
30	190.74^Ab±0.31	168.4±0.40^Aa	196.37±0.36^Cc
60	193.54^Bc±0.47	179.56±0.26^Ca	182.30±0.15^Bb
90	213.25^Cc±0.23	171.18±0.15^Ba	171.21±0.27^Ab
Recovery efficiency (%)
30	39.05±0.93^Aa	72.22±0.56^Ab	82.12±0.46^Ac
60	80.12±0.58^Ba	80.40±0.54^Bb	87.18±0.35^Bc
90	85.53±0.50^Ca	88.1±0.66^Cb	90.93±0.35^Cc

Values are mean±SD (n=3). Different superscript capital letters (A-C) in the same column indicate significant differences (p<0.05), while different superscript lowercase letters (a-c) in the same row indicate significant differences (p<0.05).