TABLE 4.

Apparent digestibility coefficient (ADC%) of crude lipid, true protein, crude protein and amino acid of reference and test diets fed to Atlantic salmon.

Nutrients	References diet	Test diet	p-value
Crude lipid	92.99 ± 0.42	93.01 ± 0.69	Ns
True protein	80.37 ± 0.46	81.19 ± 1.03	Ns
Crude protein	85.34 ± 0.34	85.63 ± 0.79	Ns
Amino acids
His	89.14 ± 0.71	88.85 ± 0.32	Ns
Ser	87.61 ± 0.67	86.69 ± 0.67	Ns
Arg	93.05 ± 0.50	92.51 ± 0.28	Ns
Gly	81.63 ± 1.03	82.25 ± 0.85	Ns
Asp	77.69 ± 0.57a	72.28 ± 1.89 b	0.01
Glu	93.16 ± 0.42	93.03 ± 0.38	Ns
Thr	85.51 ± 0.88	84.56 ± 0.74	Ns
Ala	88.86 ± 0.58a	87.04 ± 0.77 b	0.03
Pro	90.60 ± 0.59	91.04 ± 0.47	Ns
Lys	90.61 ± 0.32	90.24 ± 0.56	Ns
Tyr	90.47 ± 0.72	89.25 ± 0.32	Ns
Met	91.45 ± 0.65	90.91 ± 0.41	Ns
Val	88.57 ± 0.86	87.57 ± 0.64	Ns
Ile	89.42 ± 0.89	88.44 ± 0.41	Ns
Leu	90.63 ± 0.65	89.90 ± 0.43	Ns
Phe	90.55 ± 0.67	89.81 ± 0.31	Ns

The values are expressed as mean ± SD (n = 3). Ns, not statistically significant (p > 0.05). Statistical significance analysed through t test. Different superscript letters within an individual row denote statistically significant differences in ADC, values.