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. 2024 Mar 29;12:e17092. doi: 10.7717/peerj.17092

Table 5. Proximate analysis of the fishmeal and amphipod meal (% of dry matter).

	Fishmeal¹	Amphipod meal¹
Dry matter (%)	89.39^b	93.15^a
Crude protein (%)	61.9 ± 1.8^a	25.9 ± 0.2^b
Crude lipid (%)	8.9 ± 1.1^a	4.7 ± 0.5^b
Crude fiber (%)	2.99 ± 2.90^b	11.2 ± 1.5^a
Ash (%)	22.4 ± 0.8^b	27.2 ± 0.5^a
Nitrogen free extract	10.76 ± 0.50^b	21.4 ± 0.6^a
Gross energy (Kcal kg⁻ ¹ )	3,930.14^a	3,364.05^b

Notes:

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Sources: Ween et al. (2017), Kumar et al. (2018), Bhuyain et al. (2019), Ashour et al. (2021), Promthale et al. (2021), Alvanou et al. (2023).

Lowercase letters indicate significant different of nutritional compositions between fishmeal and amphipod meal, p < 0.05.