Table 5.

Energy values and digestibility of various chemical constituents^a of experimental diets and chili meal when fed to growing pigs in Exp. 1 (as-fed basis).

Item	Basal diet	Chili meal diet	SEM	P-value	Chili meal
Digestible energy(MJ/kg)	14.18	13.10	0.08	<0.001	9.08
Metabolizable energy(MJ/kg)	13.91	12.77	0.09	<0.001	8.48
Metabolizable energy/Digestible energy	0.98	0.97	<0.01	0.017	0.93
Digestible energy/Gross energy	0.90	0.83	<0.01	<0.001	0.54
Metabolizable energy/Gross energy	0.88	0.80	<0.01	<0.001	0.50
Dry matter	0.90	0.84	<0.01	<0.001	0.60
Crude protein	0.87	0.78	0.01	0.002	0.31
Ether extract	0.56	0.61	0.01	0.078	0.86
Neutral detergent fiber	0.73	0.61	0.02	0.002	0.38
Acid detergent fiber	0.76	0.55	0.02	<0.001	0.33
Total phosphorus	0.59.	0.57	0.02	0.583	0.49
Gross energy	0.90	0.83	<0.01	<0.001	0.54
Organic matter	0.92	0.85	<0.01	<0.001	0.66

^aThe observation of each treatment is six.