Table 6.

Effects of tannic acid concentration treatments of ground corn on the altered abundances of carbohydrate metabolic pathways (%) in level 3 KEGG.

Items	TA treatments				SEM	P -value
	0	0.015	0.025	0.035		Linear	Quadratic
Glycolysis/gluconeogenesis	1.64	1.64	1.63	1.63	0.013	0.136	0.960
Amino sugar and nucleotide sugar metabolism	1.60	1.61	1.60	1.60	0.009	0.827	0.451
Pyruvate metabolism	1.61	1.57	1.57	1.57	0.008	0.000	0.056
Starch and sucrose metabolism	1.31	1.29	1.26	1.26	0.023	0.016	0.808
Pentose phosphate pathway	1.16	1.13	1.12	1.12	0.012	0.000	0.167
Glyoxylate and dicarboxylate metabolism	1.01	1.03	1.03	1.03	0.006	0.000	0.188
Fructose and mannose metabolism	0.93	0.95	0.96	0.96	0.009	0.006	0.254
Butanoate metabolism	0.94	0.94	0.9	0.96	0.011	0.044	0.700
Citrate cycle (TCA cycle)	0.90	0.93	0.94	0.94	0.011	0.000	0.094
Galactose metabolism	0.83	0.84	0.83	0.83	0.016	0.372	0.770
Propanoate metabolism	0.83	0.83	0.83	0.83	0.006	0.778	0.814
C5-branched dibasic acid metabolism	0.428	0.435	0.438	0.440	0.005	0.023	0.306
Pentose and glucuronate interconversions	0.43	0.42	0.41	0.41	0.008	0.005	0.440
Inositol phosphate metabolism	0.11	0.12	0.12	0.12	0.003	0.180	0.401
Ascorbate and aldarate metabolism	0.09	0.09	0.09	0.09	0.002	0.107	0.549

Con, water treatment; TA, tannic acid treatment; SEM, standard error of the mean. Data represent the means of 9 replicates (n = 9).