. 2021 Nov 23;99(12):skab347. doi: 10.1093/jas/skab347

Table 2.

Average daily food and energy intake, body weight, and apparent total tract apparent nutrient digestibility in adult dogs fed control, nonviable Lactobacillus acidophilus (NVL), mixed prebiotics (MP), and MP + NVL diets

	Dietary treatments
Item	Control	NVL	MP	MP + NVL	SEM	P-value
Food intake, g/d	266	237	256	267	10.1	0.10
Energy intake, kcal/d	945	849	942	883	35.7	0.13
BW, kg	9.42	9.33	9.42	9.26	0.23	0.37
Digestibility, %
DM	87.2	87.8	87.5	86.3	0.45	0.22
CP	90.0^a	90.4^a	88.3^b	87.2^b	0.42	0.01
Crude fat	95.2^a	95.1^a	93.8^b	92.9^b	0.24	0.01
Energy	90.2^ab	90.9^a	90.5^ab	89.3^b	0.35	0.04

^abDenotes significant (P < 0.05) difference between diets.

All values are means and pooled SEM.