Table 2.
Amino acid composition of experimental diets (DM basis, g/kg).
| Item | Dietary Ile levels, g/kg |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 (Control) | 7.5 | 10.0 | 12.5 | 15.0 | 17.5 | 20.0 | |
| Thr | 31.9 | 32.8 | 31.7 | 32.4 | 33.2 | 32.2 | 32.5 |
| Val | 8.3 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 7.7 | 7.9 |
| Met | 13.7 | 12.8 | 13.6 | 13.1 | 14.1 | 13.3 | 13.0 |
| Ile | 4.7 | 7.7 | 9.7 | 12.9 | 14.3 | 17.8 | 20.6 |
| Leu | 13.8 | 12.7 | 13.0 | 13.3 | 13.1 | 12.9 | 13.4 |
| Phe | 8.2 | 7.6 | 8.5 | 7.9 | 8.3 | 7.7 | 8.1 |
| His | 8.2 | 7.8 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 8.7 | 7.9 | 8.3 |
| Lys | 26.1 | 25.5 | 26.4 | 26.6 | 25.8 | 26.3 | 26.7 |
| Arg | 26.8 | 27.3 | 27.7 | 28.1 | 27.1 | 28.5 | 28.3 |
| Trp | 3.7 | 3.4 | 2.8 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 2.9 | 3.7 |
| Cys | 2.8 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 3.2 |
| Tyr | 1.8 | 2.4 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 2.3 |