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Table 4.

Gastro-intestinal pH and total LAB count at the end of feeding trial.

Items	Control	0.1% KDF^a	0.2% KDF^a	0.3% KDF^a
Stomach pH	3.43^a ± 0.35	3.29^a ± 0.27	3.05^b ± 0.33	2.96^b ± 0.29
Intestinal tract
Upper	6.88^a ± 0.73	6.81^a ± 0.65	6.65^b ± 0.66	6.43^c ± 0.74
Middle	6.66^a ± 0.62	6.66^a ± 0.65	6.63^a ± 0.62	6.61^a ± 0.62
Lower	7.34^a ± 0.77	7.33^a ± 0.82	7.23^a ± 0.72	7.12^a ± 0.75

Total LAB count (g)	23 × 10^2a ± 0.25	34 × 10^2a ± 0.45	35 × 10^2a ± 0.43	24 × 10^3b ± 0.31

Data represented as means ± SE (n = 5/replicate). Within rows, values with different superscripts indicating that their corresponding Means are significantly different at (p < 0.05) according to one way ANOVA followed by Duncan test.

KDF Potassium di-formate, aquaform® (ADDCON, NordicAS, Porsgrunn, Norway).