Table 2.
Weekly percentage consumption results and final ranking of acceptance for the six beef components.
| Cat | Beef Component Intake (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lung | Heart | Kidney | Tripe | MDM | Liver | |
| 1 | 73.1 | 23.8 | 97.9 | 83.4 | 38.0 | 97.7 |
| 2 | 59.0 | 50.5 | 38.0 | 36.3 | 23.1 | 98.3 |
| 3 | 56.1 | 55.4 | 89.7 | 78.1 | 22.1 | 98.9 |
| 4 | 37.9 | 18.9 | 19.8 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 99.4 |
| 5 | 86.2 | 83.7 | 79.9 | 74.4 | 33.6 | 98.9 |
| 6 | 89.4 | 80.4 | 97.9 | 64.5 | 30.7 | 98.3 |
| 7 | 78.5 | 45.2 | 77.8 | 82.5 | 23.4 | 99.4 |
| 8 | 92.6 | 85.5 | 99.5 | 75.7 | 19.8 | 99.4 |
| Average ± SEM | 71.6 ± 3.8 b,c | 55.4 ± 4.8 c | 75.1 ± 5.3 b | 62.2 ± 4.9 b,c | 23.9 ± 2.7 d | 98.8 ± 0.3 a |
a,b,c,d Means denoted with different letters differ significantly at p ≤ 0.05.