Table 2.

The effect of dietary supplementation of AlphaGal to normal and low energy diet on the apparent ileal digestibility coefficient (AID%) of amino acids

Item	Energy		P-value	AlphaGal (mg/kg diet)		P-value	Energy × AlphaGal				P-value	SEM
	RED	LED		0	50		RED+ 0 AlphaGal	RED+ 50 AlphaGal	LED+ 0 AlphaGal	LED+ 50 AlphaGal
Lysine	89.06	89.19	0.49	86.76b	87.34a	0.00	86.79b	87.46a	86.73b	87.22a	0.002	0.09
Methionine	87.12	86.98	0.43	88.89b	89.35a	0.00	88.89c	89.23b	88.89c	89.48a	0.00	0.07
Threonine	84.89	84.72	0.40	84.52b	85.09a	0.00	84.70b	85.09a	84.34c	85.10a	0.00	0.09
Tryptophan	87.27	87.08	0.60	86.82b	87.53a	0.02	87.03	87.51	86.62	87.55	0.12	0.16
Arginine	90.03	90.12	0.28	89.98b	90.17a	0.004	89.94b	90.13ab	90.02ab	90.21a	0.01	0.03
Valine	85.00	85.13	0.28	84.90b	85.23a	0.001	84.83c	85.16ab	84.97bc	85.30a	0.004	0.05
Leucine	91.06a	90.33b	0.00	90.75	90.64	0.65	91.11a	91.01a	90.38b	90.27b	0.00	0.11
Isoleucine	86.17	86.25	0.42	86.09b	86.33a	0.01	86.11b	86.23ab	86.07b	86.43a	0.02	0.05

^a,b,c,d)Means within the same row carrying different superscripts are significantly different at (P < 0.05)

RED Recommended energy diet, LED Low energy diet “–120 kcal/kg diet”