Table 4.
Effects of dietary supplementation with β-glucan and/or Bacillus coagulans on whole body composition (% wet weight basis) of tilapia fish.
| Parameters | Dietary treatments | Pooled SEM | p-value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CNT | BG | BC1 | BC2 | BG+BC1 | BG+BC2 | |||
| Moisture | 73.64a | 73.83a | 73.08b | 72.57bc | 72.58bc | 72.41d | 0.16 | < 0.001 |
| Dry matter | 26.36c | 26.17c | 26.92b | 27.42ab | 27.42ab | 27.59a | 0.14 | < 0.001 |
| CP | 11.86e | 12.86cd | 14.01cb | 15.27a | 14.59ab | 15.42a | 0.12 | < 0.001 |
| CF | 7.87a | 7.51ab | 7.16bc | 7.05c | 7.16bc | 6.87c | 0.13 | 0.002 |
| Ash | 5.62a | 5.21b | 4.66c | 4.48cd | 4.45cd | 4.28d | 0.08 | < 0.001 |
CP, crude protein; CF, crude fat.
One-way ANOVA non-significant for P > 0.05. The different letters within the same raw indicated to significance variation. Data were presented as the mean ± pooled standard error.