Table 4.

Analyzed nutrient composition of diets used in Exp.1, as-fed basis

Items	CH11	CH21	CH31	CH42	US13	US24	N-free
Grains	Corn	Corn	Corn	Rice	Corn	Corn	-
Dry matter (%)	91.15	90.21	88.74	91.89	89.77	92.71	90.11
Gross energy (kcal/kg)	3,503	4,222	4,198	4,270	4,083	4,312	4,210
Crude protein (%)	14.31	16.73	15.64	16.90	15.29	18.99	0.28
Calcium (%)	0.63	0.56	0.63	0.59	0.59	0.58	0.55
Phosphorus (%)	0.28	0.23	0.23	0.28	0.42	0.09	0.40
Indispensable amino acids (%)
Arginine	0.56	0.68	0.66	0.99	0.78	0.83	ND5
Histidine	0.62	0.63	0.60	0.72	0.62	0.72	ND
Isoleucine	0.43	0.54	0.48	0.60	0.50	0.72	ND
Leucine	1.67	2.08	1.87	1.79	1.71	2.76	ND
Lysine	0.26	0.37	0.32	0.40	0.46	0.52	ND
Methionine	0.26	0.34	0.29	0.34	0.28	0.41	ND
Phenylalanine	0.78	0.78	0.72	0.84	0.70	1.08	ND
Threonine	0.52	0.58	0.50	0.59	0.52	0.74	ND
Tryptophan	0.09	0.10	0.09	0.14	0.11	0.13	ND
Valine	0.64	0.74	0.69	0.86	0.73	0.93	ND
Dispensable amino acids (%)							ND
Alanine	0.99	1.22	1.10	1.12	1.04	1.56	ND
Aspartic acid	0.85	1.02	0.88	1.26	0.96	1.29	ND
Cystine	0.31	0.38	0.30	0.36	0.31	0.43	ND
Glutamate	2.17	2.61	2.34	2.54	2.07	3.47	ND
Glycine	0.52	0.58	0.52	0.70	0.58	0.68	ND
Proline	1.14	1.40	1.19	1.08	1.10	1.73	ND
Serine	0.68	0.82	0.72	0.84	0.73	1.02	ND
Tyrosine	0.42	0.66	0.58	0.70	0.54	0.84	ND

¹Chinese distillers dried grains with solubles produced from corn. CH1, CH2, CH3 were produced at Shandong, Jilin and Hebei province, respectively.

²Chinese distillers dried grains with solubles produced from rice, produced at Heilongjiang province.

³American (Minnesota) distillers dried grains with solubles produced from corn.

⁴American (Minnesota) high protein distillers dried grains.

⁵Not determined.