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. 2018 Mar 20;96(6):2361–2370. doi: 10.1093/jas/sky114

Table 2.

Composition of experimental diets (as-fed basis)

Item, % Brewers rice FFRB1 DFRB1 Peanut meal Sesame meal Rapeseed meal Rapeseed expellers Soybean expellers Cassava meal Bakery meal N-free
Test ingredient 93.30 40.00 40.00 40.00 40.00 40.00 40.00 40.00 76.75 93.80 -
Lactose - 20.00 20.00 20.00 20.00 20.00 20.00 20.00 20.00 - 20.00
Cornstarch - 33.60 34.00 33.75 33.90 34.90 34.25 33.85 - - 56.70
Sucrose - - - - - - - - - - 15.00
Soybean oil 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 - 3.00 4.00
Limestone 0.55 1.20 1.80 0.35 0.25 - 0.35 0.65 - 0.50 0.40
Dicalcium phosphate 1.95 1.00 - 1.70 1.65 1.20 1.20 1.30 2.05 1.50 2.20
Salt 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50
Chromic oxide 0.40 0.40 0.40 0.40 0.40 0.40 0.40 0.40 0.40 0.40 0.40
Vitamin-mineral premix2 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30
Potassium carbonate - - - - - - - - - - 0.40
Magnesium oxide - - - - - - - - - - 0.10

1FFRB = full fat rice bran; DFRB = defatted rice bran.

2The vitamin-micromineral premix provided the following quantities of vitamins and micro minerals per kilogram of complete diet: Vitamin A as retinyl acetate, 11,136 IU; vitamin D3 as cholecalciferol, 2,208 IU; vitamin E as DL-alpha tocopheryl acetate, 66 IU; vitamin K as menadione dimethylprimidinol bisulfite, 1.42 mg; thiamin as thiamine mononitrate, 0.24 mg; riboflavin, 6.59 mg; pyridoxine as pyridoxine hydrochloride, 0.24 mg; vitamin B12, 0.03 mg; D-pantothenic acid as D-calcium pantothenate, 23.5 mg; niacin, 44.1 mg; folic acid, 1.59 mg; biotin, 0.44 mg; Cu, 20 mg as copper sulfate and copper chloride; Fe, 126 mg as ferrous sulfate; I, 1.26 mg as ethylenediamine dihydriodide; Mn, 60.2 mg as manganese sulfate; Se, 0.3 mg as sodium selenite and selenium yeast; and Zn, 125.1 mg as zinc sulfate.