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. 2020 May 8;11:49. doi: 10.1186/s40104-020-00451-4

Table 1.

Growth performance of broilers and pigs fed unheated and thermally processed soybean oil

Soybean oil Broilers1 Pigs2
ADG, g ADFI, g G:F ADG, g ADFI, g G:F
22.5 °C-0 h 60.3a 83.4ab 0.723a 282a 461a 0.613ab
45 °C-336 h 60.6a 84.3a 0.719a 285a 437ab 0.658a
67.5 °C-168 h 59.8a 84.7a 0.712b 290a 462a 0.634a
90 °C-84 h 59.4ab 84.8a 0.700c 230b 424ab 0.544c
135 °C-42 h 54.1d 78.3c 0.691d 182c 401b 0.467d
180 °C-21 h 56.2cd 80.6bc 0.697cd 224b 414ab 0.547c
225 °C-10.5 h 57.5bc 81.6b 0.704c 217b 390b 0.567bc
SEM 0.8 1.0 0.003 9.2 19.0 0.022
P value 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.01 0.07 0.01

ADG average daily gain, ADFI average daily feed intake, G:F gain to feed ratio

1Data represents 11 pens of broilers with 10 birds per pen for each dietary treatment, fed from 7 to 34 days of age, with an average initial and final BW of 112 and 1686 g, respectively

2Data represents 11 pens of 3 pigs per pen for each dietary treatment, fed for 25 d, with an average initial and final BW of 5.9 and 12.1 kg, respectively

a.b.c.dDifferent superscripts in a column indicates a difference between treatments (P < 0.05 or 0.05 ≤ P ≤ 0.10)