Table 6.

The standardized ileal digestibility (SID) of AA in soybean meal (SBM) and fermented corn germ meal (FCGM) in Exp. 2.

Item	SBM	FCGM	SEM1	P-value
Essential amino acids, %
Arginine	89.02a	86.25b	0.39	0.04
Histidine	86.69	87.35	1.35	0.74
Isoleucine	87.22	86.62	0.92	0.67
Leucine	87.06	88.62	1.38	0.46
Lysine	84.59	84.63	2.63	0.99
Methionine	84.09	85.27	3.76	0.83
Phenylalanine	84.47	88.60	1.95	0.19
Threonine	83.55	85.84	1.79	0.41
Tryptophan	86.21a	75.27b	2.45	0.03
Valine	83.82	88.16	2.56	0.23
Non-essential amino acids, %
Alanine	83.10	85.23	1.54	0.37
Asparagine	84.92	86.67	2.30	0.61
Cystine	82.16	83.32	2.05	0.70
Glutamine	85.80	88.50	1.20	0.17
Glycine	85.71	82.78	2.52	0.45
Proline	97.39a	93.30b	2.73	<0.01
Serine	83.73	84.22	1.17	0.78
Tyrosine	81.77b	89.92a	1.46	0.01

^a,bValues in a row with no common superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05).

¹SEM stands for the standard error of the mean (n = 6).