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. 2013 Nov 14;4(1):44. doi: 10.1186/2049-1891-4-44

Table 4.

Apparent ileal digestibility of crude protein (CP) and AA in distillers dried grains with solubles subjected to increasing levels of heat treatment by weanling pigs 1

 
Distillers dried grains with solubles
 
 
 
 
 
Autoclaved at 130°C
SEM
P -value 2
Item Non-autoclaved 10 min 20 min 30 min   Linear Quadratic
CP, %
64.4
59.0
52.2
55.7
2.0
< 0.01
0.12
Indispensable AA, %
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Arginine
79.3
71.9
72.0
69.1
1.7
< 0.01
0.06
 Histidine
73.9
66.8
65.9
66.0
1.3
< 0.01
0.23
 Isoleucine
72.3
66.2
66.6
63.1
1.4
< 0.01
0.02
 Leucine
84.0
80.7
80.4
79.1
0.8
< 0.01
0.12
 Lysine
61.2
48.0
48.7
44.9
1.9
< 0.01
0.02
 Methionine
83.6
77.7
77.8
75.7
0.9
< 0.01
< 0.01
 Phenylalanine
79.8
75.1
75.4
73.6
1.0
< 0.01
0.04
 Threonine
60.2
53.9
53.2
51.2
1.6
< 0.01
0.27
 Tryptophan
55.1
43.7
42.8
41.5
2.0
< 0.01
0.15
 Valine
71.9
65.7
65.5
62.6
1.4
< 0.01
0.08
 Mean
75.6
70.0
69.9
67.8
1.1
< 0.01
0.07
Dispensable AA, %
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Alanine
77.5
73.3
71.4
71.0
1.3
< 0.01
0.86
 Aspartic acid
65.5
55.2
55.4
53.3
1.5
< 0.01
0.02
 Cysteine
71.9
64.7
60.5
62.7
1.5
< 0.01
0.54
 Glutamic acid
81.7
76.7
75.6
75.3
0.9
< 0.01
0.34
 Glycine
43.4
36.3
29.0
31.7
4.6
< 0.01
0.47
 Proline
69.6
65.1
64.1
63.2
1.3
< 0.01
0.47
 Mean 68.3 61.8 59.2 59.5 1.5 < 0.01 0.85

1Data are means of 8 observations, except for the distillers dried grains with solubles diet that was autoclaved for 10 min (n = 7).

2Linear and quadratic effects of time of autoclaving.