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Table 5 Amino acid content (As fed basis)

From: A review of canola meal as an alternative feed ingredient for ducks

Amino acid (g/kg)

Expeller extracted canola meal

Solvent extracted canola meal

Soybean meal

[24]

[26]

[5]

[24]

[27]

[28]a

[5]

[47]

[25]

Methionine

7.0

7.1

7.0

7.2

7.1

8.6

7.2

6.6

6.3

Cystine

8.6

–

8.5

8.7

–

12.0

8.6

6.6

7.3

Methionine + Cystine

15.6

–

15.6

16.0

–

–

15.9

–

13.6

Lysine

19.7

19.8

19.6

20.2

20.2

24.9

20.0

30.4

28.9

Threonine

15.0

15.1

15.0

15.6

15.6

19.0

15.7

18.2

18.4

Tryptophan

4.9

4.4

4.8

5.1

3.9

5.3

5.0

6.8

6.3

Arginine

21.5

21.5

21.0

22.1

21.8

26.0

21.8

35.6

34.8

Isoleucine

13.9

15.0

13.9

14.3

13.9

17.8

14.3

22.4

21.7

Leucine

24.3

25.2

24.3

25.3

25.5

30.4

25.4

37.6

36.0

Valine

17.9

18.8

17.9

18.6

18.0

22.9

18.6

23.6

23.0

Histidine

9.5

9.6

9.5

9.9

9.6

15.4

9.8

12.5

12.1

Phenylalanine

14.1

14.3

13.9

14.6

14.6

17.1

14.6

24.3

23.7

  1. Dashes indicate that no data were available
  2. aEther extracted dry matter basis