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. 2016 Jan 5;29(9):1322–1330. doi: 10.5713/ajas.15.0703

Table 3.

Ingredient composition of experimental diets used in digestibility assays-selected examples (as-fed basis)

Ingredients (%) Ingredients

Cereal and cereal by-products Cotton seed meal Sunflower meal Guar meal Fish meal Soybean meal (India) Soybean meal (Argentine)
Test ingredient1 91.8 52.84 72.53 47.53 44.52 39.44 43.29
Dextrose - 35.06 15.37 40.37 47.28 48.46 44.61
Sunflower oil 2.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 2.0 6.0 6.0
Arbocel2 (cellulose) - - - - 3.0 - -
Celite 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0
Dicalcium phosphate 1.7 1.9 1.9 1.9 - 1.9 1.9
Limestone 1.3 1.0 1.0 1.0 - 1.0 1.0
Vit/min premix3 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7
Choline chloride 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
Salt 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
1

Test ingredient served as sole source of amino acid. Except cereals and cereal by-products, test ingredients were included to supply approximately 20% dietary crude protein.

2

Arbocel, Insoluble raw fiber concentrate, Holzmuhle, Rosenberg, Germany.

3

Provided per kg of diet: retinyl acetate, 4,400 IU; cholecalciferol, 118 μg; DL-α-tocopheryl acetate, 12 IU; menadione sodium bisulphite, 2.40 mg; thiamine, 2.5 mg; riboflavin, 4.8 mg; niacin, 30 mg; D-pentothenic acid, 10 mg; pyridoxine, 5 mg; biotin, 130 μg; folic acid, 2.5 mg; cyanocobalamin,