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. 2022 Mar 9;29(5):3911–3917. doi: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2022.03.004

Table 1.

Diet formulations and proximate composition of experimental feed.

Ingredients (g/100) Experimental diets containing a different level of papaya leaf extract
0.0% 0.5% 1.0% 2.0% 4.0%
Fish meal1 11.30 11.30 11.30 11.30 11.30
Soybean meal2 34.50 34.50 34.50 34.50 34.50
Corn starch3 14.25 14.25 14.25 14.25 14.25
Hermetia larvae meal 8.95 8.95 8.95 8.95 8.95
Azolla 22.50 22.50 22.50 22.50 22.50
Palm oil4 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.50
Vitamin premix5 0.40 0.40 0.40 0.40 0.40
Mineral premix6 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10
Celite7 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50
Papaya leaf extracts 0.00 0.50 1.00 2.00 4.00
CMC 4.00 3.50 3.00 2.00 0.00
Proximate composition (%)
Moisture 7.27 7.11 7.14 7.14 7.12
Protein 36.10 36.50 36.8 36.30 36.30
Lipid 7.91 7.87 8.04 7.96 8.24
Fibre 17.86 17.34 18.01 18.12 18.00
Ash 8.95 8.84 8.79 8.82 8.76
Nitrogen Free Extracts8 21.91 22.34 21.22 21.66 21.58
Gross Energy (kJ/100 g) 303.23 306.19 304.44 303.48 305.68
1

Danish fishmeal.

2

Soybean meal.

3

Corn starch.

4

Palm oil.

5

Vitamin premix (Rovimix 6288; F.Hoffman La-Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland), containing (per kg, dry weight): Vitamin A, 50 million IU; Vitamin D3, 10 million IU; Vitamin E, 130 g; Vitamin B1, 10 g; Vitamin B2, 25 g; Vitamin B6, 16 g; Vitamin B12, 100 mg; biotin,500 mg; panthothenic acid, 56 g; folic acid, 8 g; niacin, 200 g; anti-cake20 g; antioxidant, 200 mg; Vitamin K3, 10 g; and Vitamin c, 35 g.

6

Mineral premix (g/kg)-cobalt carbonate, 100 mg; copper sulphate, 780 mg; magnesium sulphate, 137 g;mmanganese oxide, 800 mg; potassium chloride, 50 g; potassium iodide, 150 mg; sodium chloride, 60 g; sodium selenite, 200 mg and zinc oxide, 1.5 g; calcium lactate, 327 g; ferrous sulphate, 25 g; calcium phosphate (monobasic), 397.5 g.

7

Celite.

8

Nitrogen free extract: 100 - (moisture + protein + lipid + ash + fibre).