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Table 5.

Effect of protein source on apparent ileal digestibility in growing pigs

Items	Treatments¹⁾				SEM	p-value

	Fish meal	Meat meal	Poultry meal	Tenebrio molitor
Dry matter (%)	84.35	86.99	87.65	89.44	2.679	0.08
Gross energy (%)	83.62	88.39	87.86	89.53	3.135	0.06
Crude protein (%)	85.04	86.76	87.87	89.58	2.387	0.05
Total amino acid (%)	85.37	86.90	87.97	89.60	1.543	0.05
Essential amino acid (%)
Lys	86.13^b	87.36^ab	88.40^ab	89.65^a	1.296	0.04
Met	85.53	87.19	87.76	89.56	1.440	0.06
Thr	84.17	86.82	87.59	89.53	1.925	0.06
Val	84.34	85.99	87.88	89.51	1.946	0.05
Ile	84.07	86.25	87.87	89.38	1.971	0.05
Leu	85.05	86.41	87.89	89.59	1.691	0.05
Phe	85.66	86.88	87.98	89.59	1.448	0.06
His	85.51^b	86.68^b	88.28^ab	89.68^a	1.579	0.04
Arg	87.37^b	87.66^b	88.93^ab	89.74^a	0.961	0.03
Non-essential amino acid (%)
Asp	85.66	87.10	87.96	89.60	1.427	0.05
Ser	85.14	87.03	88.04	89.61	1.622	0.06
Glu	86.44	87.47	88.34	89.72	1.202	0.06
Gly	84.22	86.39	87.14	89.53	1.896	0.06
Ala	83.64	86.23	86.9	89.45	2.066	0.06
Tyr	84.45	86.57	87.5	89.47	1.806	0.06
Pro	84.97	86.76	87.64	89.62	1.676	0.07
Cys	83.00^b	86.02^ab	87.64^a	89.57^a	2.406	0.04

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.

^ab

Means in a same row with different superscript significantly different (p<0.05).