Table 4.

Effect of Arthrospira platensis, individually or combined with exogenous CAZymes, on α-tocopherol (μg/g), γ-tocopherol (μg/g) and pigments (μg/g) in piglets’ liver

	Diets				SEM	p-value
	Control	AP	AP + R	AP + L
α-Tocopherol	1.64b	1.02a	1.16a	1.07a	0.086	< 0.001
γ-Tocopherol	0.073b	0.054a	0.050a	0.052a	0.004	0.0003
Chlorophyll-a1	0.360	0.780	0.469	0.580	0.202	0.510
Chlorophyll-b2	1.21	1.52	1.18	1.33	0.506	0.964
Total chlorophylls3	1.57	2.30	1.65	1.91	0.703	0.884
Total carotenoids4	0.660a	1.23b	1.28b	1.19b	0.083	< 0.001
Total chlorophylls and total Carotenoids5	2.23	3.52	2.93	3.10	0.741	0.666

Dietary treatments: cereal and soybean meal-based diet (control); based diet with 10% of Arthrospira platensis (AP); basal diet with 10% of Arthrospira platensis supplemented with 0.005% of Rovabio^® (AP + R); basal diet with 10% of Arthrospira platensis supplemented with 0.01% of lysozyme (AP + L)

^a,bMean values within a row with unlike superscript letters are significantly different (p < 0·05)

¹Chlorophyll-a = 11.24 × A662 nm - 2.04 × A645 nm

²Chlorophyll-b = 20.13 × A645 nm - 4.19 × A662 nm

³Total chlorophylls (Ca + b) = 7.05 × A662 nm + 18.09 × A645 nm

⁴Total carotenoids (Cx + c) = (1000 × A470 nm - 1.90 × Ca - 63.14 × Cb) /214

⁵Total chlorophylls and carotenoids = (Ca + b) + (Cx + c)