Table 4.
Apparent ileal digestibility (%) of crude protein (CP) and amino acid (AA) in full fat (FF meal) and defatted (DF meal) black soldier fly larvae meal samples (n = 8) fed to growing pigs (Exp. 1)
| Black soldier fly larvae meal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item | FF meal1 | DF meal2 | SEM3 | P-value |
| CP | 71.2 | 71.0 | 1.45 | 0.932 |
| Indispensable AA | ||||
| Arg | 86.3 | 86.2 | 1.29 | 0.956 |
| His | 75.0 | 77.5 | 2.65 | 0.454 |
| Ile | 80.7 | 83.2 | 1.58 | 0.303 |
| Leu | 80.6 | 83.4 | 1.59 | 0.251 |
| Lys | 80.9 | 82.2 | 1.63 | 0.561 |
| Met | 87.4 | 74.1 | 3.54 | 0.031 |
| Phe | 85.2 | 84.2 | 1.58 | 0.640 |
| Thr | 75.4 | 73.5 | 2.13 | 0.557 |
| Val | 75.6 | 81.9 | 1.88 | 0.049 |
| Dispensable AA | ||||
| Ala | 78.4 | 83.5 | 1.29 | 0.031 |
| Asp | 81.7 | 79.1 | 1.87 | 0.365 |
| Cys | 66.8 | 75.3 | 2.06 | 0.035 |
| Glu | 80.9 | 78.3 | 1.92 | 0.388 |
| Gly | 61.6 | 65.7 | 2.86 | 0.336 |
| Pro | 73.2 | 77.7 | 1.62 | 0.093 |
| Ser | 75.1 | 76.4 | 1.68 | 0.624 |
1Full fat BSFLM obtained from Oreka Solutions (Markham, ON, Canada).
2Defatted BSFLM obtained from Enterra Feed Corporation (Langley, BC, Canada).
3Maximum value of SEM.