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. 2023 Aug 28;101:skad289. doi: 10.1093/jas/skad289

Table 4.

Standardized amino acid digestibility of different sources of protein ingredients

Amino acid, % Ingredient1 SEM2
CM CLH CH
Indispensable amino acid
 Arginine 90.7 90.4 91.8 1.21
 Histidine 84.1 81.1 84.4 2.88
 Isoleucine 86.8 88.8 88.4 1.49
 Leucine 87.3 89.3 89.0 1.38
 Lysine 85.4 86.0 87.9 1.71
 Methionine 89.6 90.3 90.2 1.05
 Phenylalanine 86.7 86.2 87.6 1.53
 Threonine 82.5 84.7 85.7 1.87
 Tryptophan 94.1 93.9 94.2 1.03
 Valine 85.0 87.4 85.2 1.57
Selected dispensable amino acid
 Cysteine 67.6a 47.9b 63.6ab 4.92
 Tyrosine 84.8b 87.7ab 93.5a 1.70

1CM: chicken meal; CLH: chicken liver and heart hydrolysate; CH: chicken hydrolysate.

2Standard error of the mean.

a,bMeans in the same row with different superscript letters are different (P < 0.05).