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. 2017 Nov;95(11):4880–4892. doi: 10.2527/jas2017.1859

Table 2.

Composition of experimental diets in Exp. 1 and 2 (%, as-fed basis)

Exp. 1 Exp. 2
Item Corn diet Sorghum diet Corn diet Sorghum diet N-free diet
Ingredient
    Corn 96.9 96.6
    Sorghum 96.9 96.6
    Corn starch 73.5
    Sucrose 15.0
    Cellulose acetate 4.0
    Soybean oil 3.0
    Dicalcium phosphate 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 2.5
    Limestone 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.5
    Sodium chloride 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
    Chromic oxide 0.3 0.3 0.3
    Potassium carbonate 0.3
    Magnesium oxide 0.1
    Vitamin and mineral premix1 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5
Analyzed nutrient level
    DM 89.68 89.20 89.88 89.38 90.80
    CP 7.68 7.76 7.69 7.75 0.48
    Ash 3.60 3.62 3.77 3.81 5.02
    Ca 0.68 0.65 0.68 0.65 0.78
    Total P 0.55 0.57 0.55 0.57 0.54
Indispensable AA
    Lys 0.23 0.20 0.01
    Met 0.17 0.16
    Thr 0.25 0.26 0.01
    Trp 0.06 0.07
    Val 0.41 0.47 0.01
    Leu 1.00 0.98 0.02
    Ile 0.24 0.32 0.01
    Phe 0.34 0.37 0.02
    His 0.21 0.18 0.01
    Arg 0.32 0.35 0.01
Dispensable AA
    Tyr 0.20 0.18 0.01
    Ser 0.34 0.31 0.02
    Glu 1.30 1.58 0.04
    Pro 0.63 0.64 0.01
    Gly 0.31 0.28 0.02
    Ala 0.55 0.65 0.02
    Cys 0.22 0.21 0.01
    Asp 0.48 0.50 0.02
1

Vitamin and mineral premix provided the following per kilogram of diet: 12,000 IU vitamin A as vitamin A acetate, 2,500 IU vitamin D as vitamin D3, 30 IU vitamin E as DL-α-tocopheryl acetate, 12 μg vitamin B12, 3 mg vitamin K as menadione sodium bisulfate, 15 mg d-pantothenic acid as calcium pantothenate, 40 mg nicotinic acid, 400 mg choline as choline chloride, 30 mg Mn as manganese oxide, 80 mg Zn as zinc oxide, 90 mg Fe as iron sulfate, 10 mg Cu as copper sulfate, 0.35 mg I as ethylenediamine dihydroiodide, and 0.3 mg Se as sodium selenite.