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Table 5.

Digestible energy (DE), metabolizable energy (ME), digestibility and metabolizability of gross energy (GE) and the ratio of ME to DE (ME/DE) of the 10 experimental diets, and DE, ME, apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD) of GE and the ratio of ME to DE (ME/DE) of the 10 corn germ meal samples fed to growing pigs¹⁾

Item	Corn germ meal source										SEM	p-value

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Diets
DE (MJ/kg DM)	15.57^a	15.24^a	15.29^a	15.02^a	15.27^a	15.20^a	15.18^a	15.42^a	14.43^b	15.19^a	0.12	<0.01
ME (MJ/kg DM)	15.30^a	14.88^ab	14.87^ab	14.66^b^c	14.84^ab	14.91^ab	14.80^ab	15.04^ab	14.17^c	14.78^ab	0.12	<0.01
ME/DE (%)	98.24	97.63	97.24	97.62	97.18	98.09	97.51	97.52	98.19	97.30	0.35	0.28
GE digestibility (%)	72.99^a	65.74^a	70.56^a	64.68^a	68.96^a	66.10^a	69.06^a	71.42^a	54.12^b	65.77^a	2.13	<0.01
GE metabolizability (%)	71.36^a	62.62^ab	66.26^a	61.54^ab	64.54^a	64.22^a	65.47^a	67.88^a	52.67^b	61.80^ab	2.13	<0.01
Corn germ meals
DE (MJ/kg DM)	15.78^a	14.31^a	15.27^a	14.28^a	15.83^a	14.26^a	14.87^a	14.52^a	10.22^b	14.87^a	1.00	<0.01
ME (MJ/kg DM)	15.43^a	13.90^ab	14.52^ab	13.42^b	14.94^ab	13.58^ab	13.92^ab	13.76^ab	9.94^c	14.35^ab	1.00	<0.01
ATTD of GE (%)	72.99^a	65.61^a	70.55^a	64.68^a	68.96^a	66.10^a	65.99^a	71.20^a	54.12^b	65.77^a	5.17	<0.01
ME/DE (%)	97.74	95.30	93.81	95.25	93.70	97.14	94.81	95.00	97.41	94.13	3.34	0.31

SEM, standard error of the mean.

¹⁾

Data are means of 6 observations per treatment.

^a,b

Within a row, different superscripts indicate a significant difference (p<0.05).