Table 4.
Rumen degradability after 12 h of in situ incubation and in vitro intestinal digestibility of dry matter (DM) and crude protein (CP) of different fractions of cauliflower and Romanesco.
| Item | Cauliflower | Romanesco | SEM 1 | p | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leaves | Stems | Sprouts | Leaves | Stems | Sprouts | Vegetable | Fraction | Vegetable × Fraction | ||
| In situ rumen degradability (%) | ||||||||||
| DM | 78.7 a | 88.1 b | 91.4 b | 84.0 a | 91.7 b | 86.4 a | 1.60 | 0.310 | <0.001 | 0.019 |
| CP | 85.5 | 87.9 | 88.5 | 87.3 b | 90.3 b | 80.9 a | 1.64 | 0.421 | 0.032 | 0.005 |
| In vitro intestinal digestibility (%) | ||||||||||
| DM | 54.8 | 65.8 | 64.4 | 52.6 a | 57.1 a | 73.3 b | 2.44 | 0.859 | 0.022 | 0.170 |
| CP | 85.7 | 91.1 | 90.2 | 86.5 a | 88.9 ab | 93.2 b | 1.01 | 0.727 | 0.001 | 0.375 |
a,b,c Within each vegetable, means in the same row with different superscript differ (p < 0.05); 1 SEM: standard error of the mean (n = 9).