Table 3.
Standardized amino acid digestibility of select pulse proteins calculated using precision-fed rooster assay1
| %, DMB | Treatment | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essential amino acids | YP | GL | BB grits | NB powder | GB | SEM |
| Arginine | 93.6ab | 92.3ab | 86.5b | 91.8ab | 94.8a | 2.41 |
| Histidine | 89.1ab | 81.4ab | 80.6b | 88.0ab | 89.9a | 2.93 |
| Isoleucine | 87.2 | 88.1 | 83.3 | 87.9 | 85.8 | 3.29 |
| Leucine | 88.0 | 86.4 | 83.5 | 88.6 | 86.9 | 3.58 |
| Lysine | 89.0 | 88.4 | 82.5 | 86.6 | 84.1 | 3.13 |
| Methionine | 79.1 | 72.9 | 74.6 | 80.6 | 81.9 | 5.22 |
| Phenylalanine | 88.1 | 89.7 | 86.6 | 89.8 | 90.3 | 2.73 |
| Threonine | 90.3 | 88.9 | 81.7 | 84.2 | 88.4 | 4.27 |
| Tryptophan | 86.5 | 87.9 | 85.9 | 90.1 | 85.4 | 3.42 |
| Valine | 87.7 | 86.1 | 80.9 | 85.4 | 85.7 | 4.12 |
1 n = 4 cecectomized roosters per treatment.
a,bMeans within a row with different superscripts are significantly different at P < 0.05.