Table 6.

Total amino acid composition¹ of protein meals, used in digestibility assays (as-fed basis)

Amino acid (%)	Ingredients
	Sunflower meal	Guar meal	Cotton seed meal	Fish meal	Soybean meal (India)	Soybean meal (Argentine)
Dry matter	93.15±1.75	94.95±0.33	93.17±0.26	88.94±2.41	91.86±0.52	92.14±0.27
Indispensable amino acid
Arginine	2.29±0.38	4.50±0.20	4.38±0.39	1.57±0.13	3.62±0.09	3.17±0.16
Histidine	0.73±0.14	0.97±0.04	1.20±0.05	0.72±0.08	1.35±0.04	1.23±0.03
Isoleucine	1.19±0.23	1.10±0.02	1.39±0.06	1.45±0.30	2.31±0.08	1.86±0.25
Leucine	1.80±0.32	2.11±0.02	2.51±0.05	2.42±0.38	3.81±0.08	3.31±0.17
Lysine	0.99±0.18	1.51±0.12	1.56±0.17	1.99±0.32	3.01±0.06	2.69±0.14
Methionine	0.66±0.17	0.40±0.02	0.64±0.01	0.76±0.12	0.64±0.06	0.57±0.03
Phenylalanine	1.32±0.25	1.45±0.09	2.37±0.02	1.38±0.16	2.58±0.12	2.19±0.19
Threonine	1.05±0.18	1.14±0.06	1.41±0.06	1.22±0.15	1.91±0.05	1.78±0.04
Valine	1.43±0.27	1.29±0.02	1.77±0.07	1.78±0.32	2.39±0.11	1.90±0.30
Dispensable amino acid
Alanine	1.21±0.18	1.52±0.03	1.80±0.03	2.43±0.30	2.12±0.02	1.97±0.03
Aspartic acid	2.52±0.35	3.66±0.04	3.95±0.12	2.85±0.31	5.60±0.08	5.11±0.04
Cysteine	0.49±0.08	0.44±0.04	0.69±0.02	0.28±0.07	0.71±0.02	0.63±0.07
Glycine	1.70±0.28	2.00±0.01	1.87±0.02	2.60±0.23	2.80±0.02	1.91±0.03
Glutamic acid	5.64±1.26	7.01±0.16	8.60±0.12	4.39±0.40	9.24±0.54	8.20±0.06
Serine	1.18±0.15	1.63±0.12	1.82±0.15	1.15±0.09	2.46±0.10	2.32±0.05

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