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Table 7.

Effects of brown and green seaweed on broiler breast meat proximate composition.

Nutrients ¹ (%)	Dietary Treatments ²														Contrast p-Values ⁴
Nutrients ¹ (%)	NC	PC	BS 0.25	BS 0.50	BS 0.75	BS 1	BS 1.25	GS 0.25	GS 0.50	GS 0.75	GS 1	GS 1.25	SEM ³	p-Values	Line.	Quad.
Moisture	74.43	73.03	74.25	74.03	74.18	74.38	74.17	73.5	73.56	74.71	74.04	74.1	0.40	0.3168	0.0755	0.6850
CP	23.04 ^c	23.85 ^b,c	24.51 ^a,b	24.69 ^a,b	23.93 ^a,b,c	23.79 ^b,c	24.29 ^a,b,c	24.33 ^a,b	25.14 ^a	24.04 ^a,b,c	24.75 ^a,b	23.71 ^b,c	0.38	0.0404	0.0218	0.4461
EE	2.23 ^a	2.19 ^a,b	1.99 ^a,b,c	1.88 ^b,c	1.93 ^a,b,c	1.92 ^a,b,c	2.11 ^a,b	2.05 ^a,b	1.96 ^a,b,c	1.70 ^c	2.05 ^a,b	1.87 ^b,c	0.09	0.0258	0.7959	0.0619
Ash	1.79	1.89	1.68	1.66	1.75	1.67	1.76	1.78	1.74	1.67	1.7	1.64	0.07	0.4587	0.5104	0.2256

^a,b,c Means with different superscripts in the same row indicates significant difference (p < 0.05). ¹ Nutrients: CP = crude protein, EE (ether extract). ² Dietary treatments: NC (negative control) = basal diet, PC (positive control) = basal diet + vitamin E (100 mg/kg feed), BS 0.25 = basal diet + 0.25% brown seaweed, BS 0.50 = basal diet + 0.50% brown seaweed, BS 0.75 = basal diet + 0.75% brown seaweed, BS 1 = basal diet + 1% brown seaweed, BS 1.25 = basal diet + 1.25% brown seaweed, GS 0.25 = basal diet + 0.25% green seaweed, GS 0.50 = basal diet + 0.50% green seaweed, GS 0.75 = basal diet + 0.75% green seaweed, GS 1 = basal diet + 1% green seaweed, GS 1.25 = basal diet + 1.25% green seaweed. ³ SEM = standard error of means. ⁴ Contrast p-Values = orthogonal polynomial contrasts of dietary increasing brown and green seaweed inclusion levels (0.0 to 1.25%).