Table 3.

Amino acid composition of experimental diets

Items	Treatments1)				SEM
	Fish meal	Meat meal	Poultry meal	Tenebrio molitor
Total amino acid (%)2)	15.07	13.40	15.19	16.09	0.971
Essential amino acid (%)3)
Lys	0.98	0.88	1.10	1.21	0.124
Met	0.28	0.28	0.23	0.29	0.023
Thr	0.71	0.66	0.72	0.76	0.036
Val	0.60	0.57	0.69	0.73	0.065
Ile	0.56	0.54	0.67	0.71	0.072
Leu	1.22	1.10	1.24	1.32	0.079
Phe	0.75	0.64	0.74	0.79	0.055
His	0.38	0.34	0.39	0.41	0.025
Arg	1.03	0.88	1.04	1.10	0.081
Non-essential amino acid (%)3)
Asp	1.66	1.41	1.63	1.68	0.108
Ser	0.83	0.71	0.80	0.83	0.049
Glu	2.75	2.38	2.71	2.87	0.182
Gly	0.77	0.67	0.74	0.78	0.043
Ala	0.83	0.76	0.81	0.85	0.033
Tyr	0.44	0.37	0.44	0.48	0.040
Pro	1.04	0.97	1.03	1.05	0.031
Cys	0.24	0.24	0.21	0.23	0.012

SEM, standard error of means.

¹⁾Fish meal, corn-vegetable by-product based diet with 9.95% fish meal; meat meal, corn-vegetable by-product based diet with 9.95% meat meal; poultry meal, corn-vegetable by-product based diet with 9.95% poultry meal; Tenebrio molitor, corn-vegetable by-product based diet with 9.95% dried Tenebrio molitor larvae.

²⁾Total amino acid: Essential amino acid (%)+non-essential amino acid (%).

³⁾Chemical analysis values.