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Table 4 Standardized 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

Dietary indispensable amino acids

Arginine

87.00

88.66

92.02

1.27

0.055

Histidine

89.55

90.16

90.42

1.22

0.877

Isoleucine

89.15

90.54

90.82

2.35

0.867

Leucine

86.59

88.23

87.77

0.82

0.380

Lysine

84.67

83.88

84.60

1.54

0.924

Methionine

87.69

83.97

85.66

1.27

0.171

Phenylalanine

86.57

87.74

88.81

1.02

0.343

Threonine

83.87

84.93

86.57

1.00

0.211

Tryptophan

85.79

91.77

91.69

2.09

0.121

Valine

81.38

82.72

82.56

1.80

0.850

Dietary dispensable amino acids

Alanine

80.48

81.22

81.82

0.86

0.567

Aspartic acid

80.02b

85.65a

84.56a

1.30

0.031

Cystine

82.73

78.54

79.57

2.70

0.542

Glutamic acid

83.91

82.61

85.03

0.76

0.135

Glycine

90.05

91.32

90.97

0.95

0.632

Proline

86.35a

84.52b

85.74ab

0.43

0.038

Serine

83.16

86.82

85.56

1.12

0.116

Tyrosine

86.01

90.74

90.40

3.15

0.520

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