Table 1. Diet ingredients in Experiment 1 (% as fed).
| Item | Diet |
|
|---|---|---|
| MLM | corn starch | |
| Mulberry leaf meal | 94.5 | — |
| Corn starch | — | 94.5 |
| Mineral and vitamin premix1 | 0.25 | 0.25 |
| Salt | 0.30 | 0.30 |
| Total | 100.00 | 100.00 |
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Vitamin mineral premix contained the following minerals in milligrams per kilogram of diet: Cu, 8; Fe, 85; Zn, 80; Mn, 85; Se, 0.3; I, 0.4 and the following vitamin per kilogram of diet: vitamin A, 2500 IU; vitamin D3, 2000 IU; vitamin E, 10 IU; vitamin K3, 2 mg; thiamine, 1.5 mg; riboflavin, 10 mg; pyridoxine hydrochloride, 3 mg; cobalamin, 0.02 mg; pantothenic acid, 10 mg; nicotinic acid, 50 mg; folic acid, 1 mg; biotin, 0.15 mg; and choline chloride, 1000 mg.