Research Article

Evaluation of a Commercial High-Protein Distiller’s Dried Grain with Solubles (HP-DDGS) Product in the Diet of Juvenile Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)

Table 7

Percent apparent digestibility coefficients (ADCs) of reference and experimental diets obtained with Nile tilapiaa. The experimental digestibility diet was formulated on a 75 : 25 ratio of the reference diet to ProCap ingredient.

DietOrganic matterCrude proteinGross energy

Reference61.370.868.5
Experimental61.174.973.1
PSEb4.281.293.03
One-way ANOVA
value0.980.070.32

aValues were from duplicate tanks sampled at two distinct time points for a total of four replicate samples per treatment (). Data were subjected to one-way ANOVA, and if significant () differences were detected, means were compared using Tukey-HSD test. Diet ADC of nutrient = (1 – [yttirumdiet/yttriumfeces × Nutrfeces/Nutrdiet] × 100. bPooled standard error.