Table 1.
Composition of experimental diets.
| Ingredients | Percentage (%) composition |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | Cadmium (Cd) | Arsenic (As) | Combined (Cd + As) | |
| Control fish | 20 | – | – | – |
| Cadmium-contaminated fish | – | 20 | – | – |
| Arsenic-contaminated fish | – | – | 20 | – |
| Cadmium + Arsenic-contaminated fish | – | – | – | 20 |
| Corn starch | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 |
| Sugar | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Palm oil | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Fibre (dried groundnut husk) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Multi vitamin/mineral mix | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
The Cd and As contents of these diets were determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry.