Table 2. Effects of the daily 3-meal pattern with different dietary protein contents on growth performance of growing pigs.

Items	Control group	High-Low group	Low-High group	P value
Initial BW (kg)	20.91±0.56	20.87±0.69	20.64±0.79	0.95
Daily feed intake (g)	1313.64±8.96	1324.32±14.05	1309.04±14.11	0.69
Daily gain (g)	528.13±21.41 b	606.79±25.32 a	546.07±21.39 a b	0.048
Feed/Gain	2.46±0.06	2.15±0.10	2.41±0.09	0.074

Values are expressed as mean ± SEM, n = 7 pigs in each experimental groups.

^a,b indicate that means with different letters are significantly different (P<0.05).