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. 2020 Feb 29;10(3):400. doi: 10.3390/ani10030400

Table 4.

Body condition score (BCS) and daily intake of macronutrients, minerals, metabolizable energy (ME), and phytic acid (PA) of dogs fed the experimental diets. a–c Values in the same row that share a common superscript are not statistically different (p > 0.05).

Parameter Diets p
IZ IZ+ OZ OZ+ SEM Zn Enzyme Zn × Enzyme
BCS 4.5 4.6 4.5 4.4 0.10 1.000 0.624 0.624
Intake, units/kg BW0.75
DM, g 42.0 a 40.3 b 39.5 b 40.4 ab 0.60 0.063 0.490 0.032
OM, g 39.0 37.5 36.7 37.4 0.56 0.044 0.442 0.054
CP, g 11.3 11.1 11.3 11.7 0.17 0.105 0.532 0.056
Starch, g 12.8 12.3 11.3 11.4 0.18 <0.001 0.377 0.061
EE, g 4.96 4.69 4.51 4.47 0.071 <0.001 0.031 0.107
NDF, g 7.98 a 8.59 b 8.73 b 8.54 b 0.098 0.001 0.039 <0.001
Ca, g 0.646 0.635 0.647 0.689 0.0190 0.158 0.414 0.174
P, g 0.476 0.413 0.474 0.431 0.0068 0.237 <0.001 0.156
Fe, mg 12.9 a 11.9 b 12.2 b 12.2 ab 0.19 0.260 0.013 0.010
Cu, mg 0.886 a 0.746 bc 0.734 b 0.786 c 0.0122 <0.001 0.001 <0.001
Mn, mg 2.39 a 2.30 b 2.29 b 2.37 ab 0.035 0.638 0.759 0.024
Zn, mg 7.15 a 5.95 b 6.10 b 6.64 c 0.082 0.086 0.003 <0.001
ME, kJ 824 806 784 810 12.0 0.146 0.745 0.079
PA, g 0.439 0.385 0.431 0.391 0.0063 0.884 <0.001 0.307