. 2022 Feb 11;100(2):skac026. doi: 10.1093/jas/skac026

Table 7.

Fecal fermentative-end products for adult canines fed dietary treatments with selected dietary fiber sources

Item, μmole/g DM	Treatments¹			SEM²
Item, μmole/g DM	AMD	BPD	CD	SEM²
Total short-chain fatty acids	351.0^b	672.7^a	219.0^b	40.55
Acetate	233.4^b	480.5^a	132.9^b	32.21
Butyrate	47.0^a	54.2^a	24.7^b	3.28
Propionate	70.9^b	138.0^a	61.7^b	8.09
Total branched-chain fatty acids	14.7	9.9	14.2	2.14
Isobutyrate	5.0	3.3	5.0	0.41
Isovalerate	8.8^a	5.6^b	7.5^a	0.90
Valerate	0.8^a,b	1.0^a	0.5^b	0.09
Ammonia	109.3^a,b	90.7^b	132.9^a	10.60
Total indoles and phenols	12.1^a	2.9^b	9.9^a	1.37
Indole	12.0^a	2.9^b	9.5^a	1.33
Phenol	0.2	0.1	0.4	0.12

AMD, avocado meal diet; BPD, beet pulp diet; CD, cellulose diet; n = 9.

Pooled standard error of means.

Superscripts with different letters in a row represent statistical differences (P < 0.05).