Digestibility of Insect Meals for Nile Tilapia Fingerlings
Abstract
:Simple Summary
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Animals and Experimental Design
2.2. Diets, and Feeding Trial
2.3. Chemical Composition and Digestibility Analysis
- (1)
- ADC is the apparent digestibility coefficient;Id is chromic oxide’s concentration in the diet (%);If is chromic oxide’s concentration in the feces (%);Nd is the nutrient’s concentration in the diet (%);Nf is the nutrient’s concentration in the feces (%);
- (2)
- ADCi is the nutrient’s apparent digestibility coefficient in the test ingredient;ADCdt is the nutrient’s apparent digestibility coefficient in the test diet;ADCref is the nutrient’s apparent digestibility coefficient in the reference diet;r is the reference diet’s proportion in the test diet (0.6994);i is the test ingredient’s proportion in the test diet (0.3);Nref is the nutrient’s concentration in the reference diet (% as fed);Ni is the nutrient’s concentration in the ingredient (% as fed).
2.4. Statistical Analyses
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Nutrients | N. cinerea | Z. morio | G. portentosa | G. assimilis | T. molitor |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dry matter (%) | 93.69 | 94.56 | 94.60 | 92.41 | 95.95 |
Protein (%) | 64.78 | 49.91 | 69.94 | 62.09 | 47.82 |
Corrected Protein * (%) | 39.04 | 30.11 | 37.45 | 39.75 | 28.85 |
Energy (MJ Kg-1) | 30.7 | 26.8 | 21.2 | 24.0 | 26.6 |
Lipids (%) | 22.68 | 33.05 | 12.97 | 18.14 | 31.69 |
Ash (%) | 3.83 | 2.77 | 4.03 | 4.48 | 2.61 |
Chitin (%) | 24.36 | 22.48 | 28.94 | 22.34 | 12.01 |
Nutrients | N. cinerea | Z. morio | G. portentosa | G. assimilis | T. molitor | Control |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dry matter (%) | 90.99 | 94.08 | 94.42 | 95.14 | 94.77 | 94.43 |
Protein (%) | 36.29 | 34.95 | 32.02 | 33.55 | 31.30 | 34.29 |
Corrected Protein * (%) | 27.50 | 29.91 | 24.99 | 27.32 | 24.60 | 34.29 |
Energy (MJ·Kg-1) | 19.1 | 18.6 | 19.2 | 19.0 | 18.1 | 19.3 |
Lipids (%) | 8.86 | 9.17 | 7.13 | 8.69 | 9.40 | 4.79 |
Ash (%) | 11.02 | 10.79 | 10.23 | 10.95 | 10.27 | 11.87 |
Chitin (%) | 5.37 | 4.47 | 7.69 | 5.02 | 3.87 | - |
Nutrients | N. cinerea | Z. morio | G. portentosa | G. assimilis | T. molitor | SEM | p-Value |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dry matter | 61.7 b | 83.2 c | 48.2 a | 42.6 a | 95.8 d | 6.0 | <0.0001 |
Protein | 69.6 c | 70.0 c | 61.6 b | 39.7 a | 85.4 d | 4.2 | <0.0001 |
Corrected Protein * | 67.7 c | 74.3 c | 58.3 b | 38.9 a | 92.4 d | 5.2 | <0.0001 |
Energy | 58.4 a | 80.1 b | 47.4 a | 47.0 a | 82.1 b | 4.7 | <0.0001 |
Lipids | 91.6 ab | 93.5 b | 98.8 c | 87.9 a | 90.6 ab | 1.1 | <0.0001 |
Chitin | 59.8 a | 73.6 bc | 69.6 b | 76.2 c | 81.3 d | 2.1 | <0.0001 |
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Fontes, T.V.; de Oliveira, K.R.B.; Gomes Almeida, I.L.; Maria Orlando, T.; Rodrigues, P.B.; Costa, D.V.d.; Rosa, P.V.e. Digestibility of Insect Meals for Nile Tilapia Fingerlings. Animals 2019, 9, 181. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9040181
Fontes TV, de Oliveira KRB, Gomes Almeida IL, Maria Orlando T, Rodrigues PB, Costa DVd, Rosa PVe. Digestibility of Insect Meals for Nile Tilapia Fingerlings. Animals. 2019; 9(4):181. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9040181
Chicago/Turabian StyleFontes, Táfanie Valácio, Kátia Rodrigues Batista de Oliveira, Izabella Luiza Gomes Almeida, Tamira Maria Orlando, Paulo Borges Rodrigues, Diego Vicente da Costa, and Priscila Vieira e Rosa. 2019. "Digestibility of Insect Meals for Nile Tilapia Fingerlings" Animals 9, no. 4: 181. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9040181