TABLE 1.

Composition of diets (AOAC, 1984).

Diet	Basal diet	Type of diet	Basal diet	Diet	Basal diet
Component	Quantity (g/100g)	Component	Quantity (g/100g)	Component	Quantity (g/100g)
Starch	53	Vitamin mixture	1.0	Fat	7.0
Casein	20	Mineral mixture	3.5	Cellulose	5.0
Sucrose	10	Choline chloride	0.2	Methionine	0.3

Composition of vitamin mixture
Vitamin mixture	Quantity (mg/100 gm)	Vitamin mixture	Quantity (mg/100 gm)	Vitamin mixture	Quantity (mg/100 gm)
Vitamin A	2000IU	Ca-D-Pantothenate	4.0 mg	Mesoinositol	10 mg
Vitamin D	200 IU	Riboflavin	0.8 mg	Niacin	4.0 mg
Vitamin K	0.5 mg	Thiamin-HCl	0.5 mg	Biotin	0.04 mg
Choline chloride	200 mg	Pyridoxin-HCl	0.5 mg	Vitamin B|?	0.003 mg
PABA	10 mg	Folic acid	0.2 mg

Composition of mineral mixture
Salt Mixture	Quantity (gm/kg)	Salt Mixture	Quantity (gm/kg)	Salt Mixture	Quantity (gm/kg)
KH2PO4	389gm	ZnSO4.7H2O	0.548 gm	FeSO4.7H2O	27gm
MgSO4	57.3 gm	CuSO4.5H2O	0.477 gm	MnSO4.H2O	4.1 gm
CaCO3	381.4gm	CoCl7.6H7O	0.023 gm	NaCl	139.3 gm
KI	0.79 gm