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. 2019 Jul 29;5(4):359–365. doi: 10.1016/j.aninu.2019.07.001

Table 1.

Analyzed nutrient composition of corn, wheat, soybean meal (SBM) distillers dried grains with soluble (DDGS), and palm kernel meal (PKM) (%, as-fed basis).

Item Feed sources
Corn Wheat SBM DDGS PKM
DM 86.79 86.48 88.48 88.27 91.40
CP 7.42 12.42 46.86 27.51 15.46
Ether extract 3.35 1.87 1.67 9.73 6.45
Ash 1.28 1.76 6.15 3.83 4.12
Calcium 0.02 0.08 0.34 0.06 0.25
Phosphorus 0.25 0.38 0.61 0.72 0.64
GE, kcal/kg 3,954 3,982 4,274 4,786 4,237
Indispensable AA
 Arg 0.36 0.54 3.28 1.27 1.34
 His 0.21 0.27 1.28 0.76 0.19
 Ile 0.26 0.38 2.08 1.08 0.46
 Leu 0.86 0.74 3.51 3.35 0.77
 Lys 0.24 0.37 2.88 0.83 0.35
 Met 0.16 0.19 0.69 0.66 0.20
 Phe 0.35 0.50 2.30 1.42 0.51
 Thr 0.26 0.33 1.77 1.13 0.37
 Val 0.34 0.50 2.14 1.37 0.63
Dispensable AA
 Ala 0.55 0.41 1.97 2.10 0.53
 Asp 0.50 0.57 5.11 1.96 0.96
 Cys 0.16 0.28 0.70 0.46 0.16
 Glu 1.30 2.89 7.96 5.17 2.32
 Gly 0.29 0.47 1.90 1.11 0.53
 Pro 0.58 1.06 2.31 2.24 0.36
 Ser 0.33 0.45 2.11 1.29 0.53
 Tyr 0.23 0.28 1.63 1.18 0.28

DM = dry matter; CP = crude protein; GE = gross energy; AA = amino acids.