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Table 3 Apparent ileal digestibility of protein sources in pigs

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

SEM1

p-value

CP

71.46a

68.10b

70.51ab

0.98

0.015

Dietary indispensable amino acids

Arginine

81.50

80.28

83.53

1.24

0.087

Histidine

79.58

77.02

78.10

1.10

0.167

Isoleucine

80.68

76.62

78.04

1.48

0.062

Leucine

81.09

79.77

80.12

1.06

0.622

Lysine

78.69a

73.03b

76.46ab

1.80

0.016

Methionine

80.02a

76.72b

79.30ab

1.10

0.020

Phenylalanine

80.73a

77.62b

79.26ab

1.06

0.041

Threonine

74.05

71.99

75.12

1.18

0.075

Tryptophane

73.04

70.35

72.61

2.64

0.713

Valine

73.16

71.64

72.46

1.26

0.665

Dietary dispensable amino acids

Alanine

72.37a

69.83b

71.67ab

0.82

0.013

Aspartic acid

73.80a

70.57b

71.40ab

1.14

0.039

Cystine

72.06

70.72

72.01

2.02

0.855

Glutamic acid

80.14

77.39

79.95

1.08

0.052

Glycine

72.81

71.50

72.27

0.84

0.491

Proline

79.26a

77.11b

78.63ab

0.74

0.040

Serine

75.57

74.06

74.10

0.86

0.297

Tyrosine

75.77

72.83

74.02

1.58

0.348

  1. ab Values with different superscripts of the same row are significantly differ (p<0.05)
  2. 1 Standard error of means