. 2017 Nov 4;97(1):236–246. doi: 10.3382/ps/pex300

Table 5.

The effect of pellet procedure on proximate analysis, mineral content, and amino acid composition of fermented feeds¹ (Trial 2).

	Control	Fermented feed²		SEM	P-value
		BBC	PBBC
Proximate analysis
Ash, %/DM	6.00	6.08	6.14	0.05	0.2724
CP, %/DM	26.3	26.5	25.8	0.2	0.2151
Gross energy, kcal/g/DM	4,730	4,702	4,702	10	0.1508
Calcium, %/DM	0.730	0.693	0.713	0.012	0.1899
Phosphorus, %/DM	0.720	0.727	0.723	0.008	0.8424
Amino acid composition, %/DM
Total amino acid	19.4^b	20.7^a	21.0^a	0.1	0.0003
Essential amino acid
Thr	0.825^b	0.875^a	0.865^a	0.006	0.0020
Val	0.853^b	0.960^a	0.985^a	0.020	0.0070
Met	0.355	0.388	0.390	0.011	0.0848
Ile	0.730^b	0.795^a	0.800^a	0.017	0.0434
Leu	1.73^b	1.84^a	1.85^a	0.01	0.0006
Trp	0.680	0.715	0.713	0.011	0.0787
Phe	1.01^b	1.10^a	1.12^a	0.01	0.0002
Lys	1.22	1.21	1.22	0.01	0.9143
His	0.575	0.575	0.565	0.006	0.4219
Arg	1.43	1.46	1.46	0.02	0.3786
Non-essential amino acid
Asp	2.22^b	2.33^a	2.35^a	0.02	0.0025
Ser	1.08^b	1.12^a	1.12^a	0.01	0.0285
Glu	3.68^b	4.00^a	4.04^a	0.03	0.0001
Pro	1.07^b	1.16^a	1.16^a	0.01	0.0007
Gly	0.875^b	0.945^a	0.950^a	0.009	0.0024
Ala	0.970^b	1.055^a	1.068^a	0.005	<0.0001
Cys	0.185^b	0.205^a	0.205^a	0.003	0.0080

¹Data are means of 3 batches of each feed, each batch was tested in triplicate.

²BBC: Bacillus subtilis var. natto N21 + Bacillus coagulans L12 fermented feed; PBBC: BBC was dried by oven at 65°C for 7.5 h, and then pelleted.

^a,bMean in the same row with different superscript are significantly different (P < 0.05).