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. 2024 Jan 26;14(3):404. doi: 10.3390/ani14030404

Table 1.

Compositions of experimental diets.

Ingredients (Percent Dry Basis) Diets
FM SBM-S SBM-F SBM-P
FM 55
BSM-S 58.2
BSM-F 55.1
BSM-P 66
α-starch 1 5 5 5 5
Yeast 2 1 1 1 1
Oil 3 7.68 7.83 7.75 8.23
Chromic oxide 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5
Casein 15 15 15 15
Vitamin premix 4 2 2 2 2
Mineral premix 5 1 1 1 1
Cholesterol 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5
Vitamin A 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Vitamin D 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Vitamin E 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
α-cellulose 12.02 8.67 11.85 0.47
Analyzed composition 6
Moisture 9.88 10.14 9.87 9.98
Crude protein 42.25 41.10 42.31 41.70
Crude lipids 12.25 11.85 12.16 11.2
Crude fiber 13.39 13.91 16.81 6.41
Ash 7.87 8.11 8.88 9.01
NFE 7 24.24 25.04 19.85 31.68
Dry matter 90.12 89.86 90.13 90.02
Metabolizable energy 336.79 332.16 320.87 352.03
Gross energy (Kcal/100 g) 376.17 371.16 358.03 394.32

1 α-starch (Thai Wah, Bangkok, Thailand). 2 Yeast (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA). 3 Fish oil/soybean oil = 2:1 (v/v). 4 0.5% thiamine HCl, 0.8% riboflavin, 2.6% niacinamide, 0.1% D-biotin, 1.5% Ca-pantothenate, 0.3% pyridoxine HCl, 0.5% folic acid, 18.1% inositol, 12.1% ascorbic acid, 0.1% cyanocobalamin, 3% para-aminobenzoic acid, 0.1% butylated hydroxytoluene, and 60.3% cellulose. 5 Modified from the premix used in another study [33]. 6 Expressed in terms of the percentage of dry weight. 7 Nitrogen-free extract (NFE) = (100 − [crude protein + crude lipids + crude fiber + ash]) (%). Abbreviations: BSM-S, black soldier larvae fed soybean meal; BSM-F, black soldier larvae fed fishery byproducts; BSM-P, black soldier larvae fed pitaya; FM, fish meal.