Table 3. Effect of adding protected amino acid ligands on eating, rumination and total chewing time.
| Parameter | Treatments | SEM | p value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||
| Glucose (mg/dl) | 95.10 | 96.60 | 100.71 | 98.35 | 99.71 | 97.71 | 0.60 | 0.10 |
| Cholesterol (mg/dl) | 136.00a | 134.51ab | 130.44b | 132.86a | 131.44a | 130.44b | 0.64 | 0.02 |
| Urea Nitrogen (mg/dl) | 16.99 | 17.89 | 17.23 | 17.10 | 17.43 | 17.30 | 0.40 | 0.99 |
| Total protein (gm/dl) | 7.01 | 7.21 | 7.68 | 7.94 | 7.53 | 7.48 | 0.40 | 0.99 |
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.