Table 6.
Effect of BSFLM on proximate compositions in the muscle and whole body of fish (% wet basis)1.
| Item | Diets |
P-value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SM | BSFLM15 | BSFLM30 | BSFLM45 | BSFLM60 | BSFLM75 | BSFLM100 | ||
| Muscle | ||||||||
| Moisture | 77.21 ± 0.07 | 77.36 ± 0.07 | 77.13 ± 0.04 | 77.39 ± 0.02 | 76.87 ± 0.06 | 77.28 ± 0.05 | 77.35 ± 0.01 | 0.79 |
| Crude protein | 19.26 ± 0.60 | 19.44 ± 0.17 | 19.27 ± 0.06 | 19.12 ± 0.24 | 19.20 ± 0.88 | 19.43 ± 0.55 | 19.10 ± 0.57 | 0.97 |
| Crude lipid | 1.43 ± 0.27 | 1.43 ± 0.40 | 1.29 ± 0.08 | 1.48 ± 0.11 | 1.67 ± 0.21 | 1.48 ± 0.12 | 1.20 ± 0.10 | 0.25 |
| Ash | 1.21 ± 0.07 | 1.28 ± 0.07 | 1.33 ± 0.04 | 1.24 ± 0.02 | 1.31 ± 0.06 | 1.23 ± 0.05 | 1.28 ± 0.01 | 0.10 |
| Whole body | ||||||||
| Moisture | 71.05 ± 0.78 | 70.34 ± 0.15 | 70.13 ± 0.20 | 70.42 ± 1.52 | 70.03 ± 1.32 | 70.93 ± 0.46 | 71.30 ± 0.35 | 0.46 |
| Crude protein | 16.51 ± 0.19b | 16.67 ± 0.17ab | 16.90 ± 0.16a | 16.70 ± 0.12ab | 16.41 ± 0.27b | 16.33 ± 0.21b | 16.52 ± 0.23b | 0.04 |
| Crude lipid | 8.31 ± 0.51 | 8.87 ± 0.25 | 9.24 ± 0.17 | 8.99 ± 1.49 | 9.20 ± 1.48 | 8.50 ± 0.69 | 8.19 ± 0.49 | 0.66 |
| Ash | 3.44 ± 0.22 | 3.31 ± 0.09 | 3.37 ± 0.04 | 3.28 ± 0.26 | 3.17 ± 0.09 | 3.28 ± 0.06 | 3.15 ± 0.15 | 0.30 |
BSFLM = black soldier fly larvae meal; SM = soybean meal.
1
Values are mean ± SD (n = 3). Values with different superscript letters in the same row are significantly different (P < 0.05) from each other.