Table 3.
Chemical nutritional analysis of yellow mealworm larvae fed different four different levels of deoxynivalenol (DON)-contaminated wheat (dry matter percent).
| Parameter | Treatments | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ODL | FDL | ||||
| Control | Control | Low | Medium | High | |
| Dry Matter | 39.7 | 39.9 | 41.0 | 42.4 | 40.1 |
| Crude Protein | 50.2 | 51.9 | 49.4 | 50.7 | 49.6 |
| Crude Fat | 34.4 | 34.7 | 36.0 | 35.5 | 35.2 |
| Ash | 3.2 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.5 |
| ADF | 5.7 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 5.4 |
| ADIN | 3.0 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.6 |
| Chitin | 2.8 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.9 | 2.7 |
ODL (oven-dried larvae); FDL (freeze-dried larvae); ADF (acid detergent fiber); ADIN (acid detergent fiber insoluble nitrogen); concentration of DON in treatments: 200 µg/kg (ODL fed control), 200 µg/kg (FDL fed control), 2000 µg/kg (low), 10,000 µg/kg (medium) and 12,000 µg/kg (high).