Table 5.

Total amino acid composition¹ of cereals and cereal byproducts, used in digestibility assays (as-fed basis)

Amino acid (%)	Ingredients
	Corn	Rice broken	Rice polishings	Wheat bran
Dry matter	91.33±0.44	90.13±0.40	93.16±0.62	91.80±1.28
Indispensable amino acid
Arginine	0.42±0.06	0.71±0.05	0.88±0.04	1.00±0.08
Histidine	0.27±0.05	0.21±0.01	0.33±0.03	0.42±0.02
Isoleucine	0.27±0.04	0.37±0.02	0.41±0.04	0.45±0.08
Leucine	0.83±0.09	0.74±0.05	0.81±0.08	0.88±0.09
Lysine	0.28±0.05	0.33±0.02	0.54±0.03	0.61±0.07
Methionine	0.19±0.03	0.25±0.02	0.25±0.04	0.23±0.04
Phenylalanine	0.39±0.08	0.48±0.03	0.56±0.08	0.58±0.12
Threonine	0.28±0.04	0.32±0.02	0.45±0.05	0.50±0.04
Valine	0.41±0.07	0.53±0.03	0.65±0.08	0.69±0.13
Dispensable amino acid
Alanine	0.53±0.06	0.52±0.03	0.71±0.06	0.72±0.06
Aspartic acid	0.51±0.08	0.80±0.04	1.02±0.04	1.06±0.05
Cysteine	0.21±0.03	0.20±0.02	0.26±0.02	0.30±0.03
Glycine	0.33±0.05	0.40±0.02	0.65±0.06	0.79±0.04
Glutamic acid	1.42±0.27	1.59±0.10	1.67±0.18	2.81±0.29
Serine	0.35±0.03	0.44±0.03	0.51±0.02	0.61±0.03

¹Data were average of three samples of each feed ingredient.