Table 10.

Effect of replacing soybean meal with fermented corn germ meal (FCGM) in the diets on fecal volatile fatty acids of growing pigs (mmol/kg).

Item	Dietary treatments1				SEM2	P-value
	FCGM0	FCGM10	FCGM20	FCGM30		Linear	Quadratic
Acetic acid	68.41	76.26	79.52	84.68	5.95	0.08	0.83
Propionic acid	24.15	29.45	30.00	32.27	2.35	0.04	0.53
Isobutyric acid	1.56	1.62	1.92	1.60	0.18	0.65	0.33
Butyric acid	9.36	13.01	16.30	17.74	1.85	<0.01	0.57
Isovaleric acid	4.55	5.03	5.78	5.03	0.49	0.34	0.24
Valeric acid	1.44	2.66	2.54	2.63	0.54	0.19	0.32
Total volatile fatty acid	109	128	136	144	8.23	0.01	0.53

¹FCGM0, FCGM10, FCGM20 and FCGM30 diets were made by substituting fermented corn germ meal for 0%, 10%, 20% and 30% soybean meal.

²SEM stands for the standard error of the mean (n = 6).