Table 2.

Composition of diets (as fed basis, g/kg).

Item	Dietsa
	Control	MCT1	MCT2	MCT3
Ingredients
Corn	449	449	449	449
Wheat flour	100	100	100	100
Soybean meal	120	120	120	120
Extruded soybean	80	80	80	80
Fermented soybean meal	40	40	40	40
Fish meal	82	82	82	82
Glucose	54	54	54	54
Soybean oil	35	28	21	14
Medium-chain triglycerides	0	7	14	21
Premixb	40	40	40	40
Nutrient levelc
Digestible energy, MJ/kg	14.52	14.51	14.49	14.49
Crude protein	198.2	198.4	198.0	198.5
Lysine	12.9	12.6	12.8	12.7
Methionine + cystine	6.8	6.8	6.8	6.8
Threonine	7.0	7.1	7.0	7.2
Tryptophan	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
Calcium	7.8	7.8	7.7	7.8
Total phosphorus, %	6.1	6.0	6.0	6.0
Available phosphorus, %	4.0	4.0	4.0	4.0

^aControl, diet contained 3.5% soybean oil (SO); MCT1, diet contained 0.7% medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) and 2.8% SO; MCT2, diet contained 1.4% MCTs and 2.1% SO; MCT3, diet contained 2.1% MCTs and 1.4% SO.

^bPremix provided per kilogram of diet: Fe, 180 mg as FeSO₄; Cu, 230 mg as CuSO₄; Zn, 180 mg as ZnSO₄; Mn, 50 mg as MnSO₄; I, 0.5 mg as Ca(IO₃)₂; Se, 0.2 mg as Na₂SeO₃; vitamin A, 15,000 IU; vitamin D₃, 3000 IU; vitamin E, 100 mg; vitamin K-3, 3 mg; vitamin B₁, 3 mg; vitamin B₂, 8 mg; vitamin B₆, 5 mg; vitamin B₁₂, 0.04 mg; biotin, 0.3 mg; pantothenic acid, 20 mg; niacin, 45 mg; folic acid, 2 mg; choline chloride, 450 mg; vitamin C, 160 mg.

^cAll nutrient contents, except digestible energy and available phosphorus, were analyzed values.