Table 9.

Mineral composition of breast and thigh meats of broilers (n = 10).

	Dietary Treatments 1				SEM 2	p-Value
Item	Control	LA	LAR	LAE
Breast
Macrominerals (mg/100 g fresh weight)
Calcium	17.0	17.2	16.9	16.9	0.86	0.993
Magnesium	32.7	32.3	32.4	34.2	1.24	0.695
Phosphorus	242	255	254	256	5.2	0.225
Potassium	499	518	506	508	8.7	0.494
Sodium	62.3	64.1	62.6	60.0	2.23	0.628
Sulfur	211	226	223	223	5.2	0.209
Total	1064	1112	1096	1098	16.4	0.226
Microminerals (mg/100 g fresh weight)
Bromine	0.12 b	0.85 a	0.78 a	0.74 a	0.039	<0.001
Copper	0.078	0.070	0.075	0.074	0.0029	0.270
Iodine	0.01 b	0.36 a	0.35 a	0.35 a	0.022	<0.001
Iron	1.02	0.88	0.96	0.96	0.037	0.083
Manganese	0.065	0.068	0.068	0.065	0.0027	0.787
Zinc	1.32	1.23	1.23	1.17	0.052	0.290
Total	2.61 b	3.46 a	3.46 a	3.35 a	0.112	<0.001
Total macro- and microminerals	1067	1116	1099	1101	16.4	0.211
Thigh
Macrominerals (mg/100 g fresh weight)
Calcium	17.8	16.7	17.7	17.0	0.39	0.125
Magnesium	29.7	29.9	29.4	29.8	0.58	0.949
Phosphorus	225	231	224	232	2.8	0.126
Potassium	470	478	462	475	5.0	0.149
Sodium	63.0	62.3	62.9	61.4	1.57	0.880
Sulfur	202	211	204	208	3.7	0.333
Total	1008	1029	1001	1023	10.0	0.170
Microminerals (mg/100 g fresh weight)
Bromine	-	-	-	-	-	-
Copper	0.099	0.093	0.098	0.098	0.0038	0.646
Iodine	-	-	-	-	-	-
Iron	0.780	0.792	0.831	0.844	0.0346	0.510
Manganese	0.064	0.063	0.063	0.066	0.0020	0.604
Zinc	2.38	2.35	2.51	2.36	0.077	0.434
Total	3.32	3.30	3.50	3.37	0.089	0.383
Total macro- + microminerals	1011	1032	1004	1026	10.0	0.173

¹ Control, corn–soybean basal diet; LA, basal diet plus 15% L. digitata; LAR, basal diet plus 15% L. digitata + 0.005% Rovabio^® Excel AP; LAE, basal diet plus 15% L. digitata + 0.01% recombinant CAZyme. ² SEM, standard error of the mean. ^a,b Different superscript letters within a row indicate a significant difference (p < 0.05).