Table 2.

Analyzed nutrient compositions of experimental diets (experiment 1), phase I and phase II^a

	Phase I				Phase II
Analyzed values	PCb	NCb	NC + 250 FTUc	NC + 500 FTU	PC	NC	NC + 250 FTU	NC + 500 FTU
Dry matter, %	85.61	85.36	85.81	85.37	85.36	85.17	84.62	84.58
Ash, %	5.85	5.68	5.40	6.02	6.25	5.64	5.85	3.96
Crude protein, %	18.31	19.24	19.81	19.57	21.50	20.45	19.76	19.97
Ca, %	0.82	0.83	0.77	0.75	0.65	0.75	0.71	0.67
P, %	0.56	0.40	0.41	0.41	0.52	0.38	0.36	0.34
Amino acids, %
Ile	0.78	0.81	0.85	0.92	0.78	0.79	0.80	0.86
Leu	1.60	1.67	1.74	1.85	1.59	1.66	1.67	1.74
Lys	1.34	1.35	1.37	1.46	1.31	1.28	1.27	1.39
Met	0.28	0.28	0.30	0.31	0.28	0.28	0.28	0.30
Thr	0.77	1.00	0.84	0.87	0.72	0.75	0.80	0.81
Val	0.94	0.95	1.02	1.08	0.94	0.96	0.96	1.02
Ala	0.94	0.96	1.02	1.06	0.92	0.96	0.98	1.02
Asp	1.99	2.04	2.12	2.27	1.94	1.94	2.03	2.15
Cys	0.32	0.29	0.31	0.32	0.28	0.29	0.30	0.30
Glu	3.31	3.50	3.59	3.86	3.24	3.37	3.48	3.62
Gly	0.79	0.85	0.90	0.94	0.76	0.83	0.87	0.91
Pro	1.16	1.20	1.27	1.32	1.17	1.18	1.21	1.23
MHAd	0.23	0.27	0.20	0.25	0.15	0.17	0.17	0.11

^aPhase I diets were fed to pigs from d 0 to d 14 of the experiment and, Phase II diets were fed from d 14 to d 28 of the experiment.

^bPC, positive control; NC, negative control.

^cFTU, phytase units per kg of complete diet.

^dMHA is dry calcium salt of d,l-2-hydroxy-4-(methylthio)butanoic acid (84% Met activity, MHA, Novus International, Inc., St. Charles, MO).