. 2020 Apr 13;7(2):229–233. doi: 10.5455/javar.2020.g414

Table 2. Effect of adding protected amino acid ligands on eating, rumination and total chewing time.

Parameter	Treatments						SEM	p value
Parameter	1	2	3	4	5	6	SEM	p value
Eating time (minutes per day)	116^bc	126^ac	136^a	132^a	127^ac	130^ab	1.71	0.014
Duration of the rumination time (minutes per day)	268^b	285^ab	282^a	280^ab	275^ab	290^ab	3.13	0.014
Chewing time (minutes per day)	384	411	418	412	402	412	4.62	0.19
Rest (not doing chewing activity)	1,056	1,029	1,022	1,022	1,038	1,020	4.62	0.19

1 – In each row the numbers with different letters have significant difference (p < 0.05).

2 – Treatment 1) Control, 2) free amino acid, 3) Methionine and lysine benzaldehyde, 4) Methionine and glutaraldehyde lysine, 5) Methionine and lysine sucrose, and 6) Methionine and lysine vanillin.