Table 1.

Composition of the experimental diets

	AIN93G	Wheat-supplemented
Ingredient (g/kg)
Casein	200	164
Corn starch	395.8	216.7
Cooked wheata	0	250
Dextrinized starch	132	132
Sucrose	100	100
Soybean oil	70	66
Cellulose	50	19.5
Mineral mixb	35	35
AIN-93G vitamin mix	10	10
L-methionine	0.3	0.63
L-cystine	4.4	3.69
Choline bitartrate	2.5	2.5
Tert-butylhydroquinone	0.014	0.014
Gross energy (kcal/g)
Calculatedc	3.8	3.8
Measured, powdered diet	4.4	4.4
Measured, pelleted diet	4.4	4.4

^aWesley, hard-red winter wheat.

^bMineral mix contained calcium carbonate, anhydrous, 40.04% Ca, 555.26 g/kg; sodium chloride, 39.34% Na, 52.17 g/kg; sodium metasilicate, 9-hydrate, 9.88% Si, 1.45 g/kg; chromium potassium sulfate, 12-hydrate, 10.42% Cr, 0.275 g/kg; copper carbonate, 57.47% Cu, 0.143 g/kg; boric acid, 17.5% B, 0.082 g/kg; sodium fluoride, 45.24% F, 0.064 g/kg; nickel carbonate, 45% Ni, 0.032 g/kg; lithium chloride, 16.38% Li, 0.017 g/kg; potassium iodate, 59.3% I, 0.010 g/kg; ammonium paramolybdate, 4 hydrate, 54.34% Mo, 0.008 g/kg; ammonium vanadate, 43.55% V, 0.007 g/kg; and powdered sucrose, 390.482 g/kg.

^cReference 21.