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Table 2 Proximate and amino acid composition of the protein sources used for ileal digestibility

From: Comparative ileal amino acid digestibility and growth performance in growing pigs fed different level of canola meal

Item (%)

Soybean meal

Rapeseed meal

Canola meal

DM

86.33

87.51

88.63

CP

44.96

34.22

37.77

Ash

4.95

6.52

6.29

CF

5.60

8.54

9.50

Ca

0.40

1.15

0.66

P

0.42

0.76

1.03

NDF

12.06

22.29

25.06

ADF

8.30

14.19

16.18

Amino acid

   

Dietary indispensable amino acids

Arginine

3.27

2.16

2.13

Histidine

1.19

0.91

0.97

Isoleucine

2.04

1.25

1.36

Leucine

3.47

2.27

2.51

Lysine

2.83

1.57

2.09

Methionine

0.61

0.65

0.74

Phenylalanine

2.34

1.36

1.44

Threonine

1.83

1.40

1.58

Tryptophan

0.55

0.33

0.37

Valine

2.10

1.57

1.72

Sub-mean

20.23

13.47

14.91

Dietary dispensable amino acids

   

Alanine

1.95

1.40

1.57

Aspartic acid

5.31

2.21

2.53

Cystine

0.64

0.88

0.91

Glutamic acid

8.47

6.17

6.34

Glycine

1.94

1.70

1.80

Proline

2.28

2.20

2.29

Serine

2.37

1.42

1.58

Tyrosine

1.51

0.87

0.95

Sub-mean

24.47

16.85

17.97

Total-mean

44.70

30.32

32.88