Table 4.

Fecal bile acid proportions from healthy adult dogs consuming 1 of 4 experimental diets with 0%, 15%, 30%, or 45% whole pulse ingredients (Ctl, Pulse15, Pulse30, Pulse45) after 20 wk of consumption, presented as least square means

Bile Acid	Treatment
*%, of total BA1	Ctl	SEM	Pulse15	SEM	Pulse30	SEM	Pulse45	SEM	P-values
n	7		6		7		6		TRT2	L	Q	C
Primary BA, % of total
Cholic acid	2.473	1.774	1.046	0.809	1.025	0.676	1.881	1.504	0.779	0.388	0.851	0.784
Chenodeoxycholic acid	1.602	0.737	1.930	0.940	2.228	0.931	2.531	1.296	0.911	0.849	0.563	0.802
Total primary acids	4.550	2.570	3.267	1.923	3.795	1.938	5.412	3.397	0.934	0.634	0.795	0.792
Secondary BA, % of total
Deoxycholic acid	64.588	4.672	62.142	5.302	57.004	4.097	50.288	4.138	0.204	0.979	0.066	0.267
Lithocholic acid	15.065	3.213	24.599	5.751	24.571	4.830	21.219	5.072	0.421	0.175	0.482	0.962
Ursocholic acid	0.741a	0.348	0.167ab	0.076	0.330ab	0.137	0.098b	0.045	0.037	0.129	0.154	0.019
Total secondary acids	92.093	11.531	96.169	7.786	90.633	10.633	83.481	6.013	0.674	0.542	0.354	0.671
Primary:Secondary	0.052	0.035	0.034	0.023	0.041	0.024	0.073	0.054	0.887	0.595	0.734	0.711

¹Bile acids.

²Treatment.

^a,bDifferent letters within the same row indicate statistical significance (P < 0.05).

^*Percentage derived from the total BAs presented in Table 3 and Table S1.

n = number of observations. Orthogonal contrasts; L = linear, Q = quadratic, C = cubic.