Research Article

Evaluation of Six Selected Commercial Fermented Soybean Meal by Feeding Juvenile Turbot (Scophthalmus maximus L.)

Table 2

Amino acid composition of experimental diets (g/kg dry matter)1.

Amino acidsDiets2
FMFSBM1FSBM2FSBM3FSBM4FSBM5FSBM6

Essential amino acid
Threonine19.119.117.919.320.218.918.5
Valine24.026.026.426.628.925.826.4
Methionine12.211.713.013.513.714.111.8
Isoleucine22.121.722.022.324.122.021.5
Leucine36.639.339.441.043.940.139.1
Phenylalanine22.725.225.926.728.225.224.1
Lysine28.127.228.129.130.828.027.2
Histidine14.114.815.015.516.715.014.7
Arginine25.225.726.127.629.127.026.8
Nonessential amino acid
Proline26.024.123.724.225.624.524.0
Aspartic acid36.641.841.744.547.643.943.3
Serine20.821.421.022.823.722.621.4
Glutamic acid104.196.293.598.8106.097.594.9
Glycine29.227.027.327.429.427.526.3
Alanine30.130.429.330.232.429.929.0
Cysteine5.35.25.45.76.35.85.4
Tyrosine15.615.616.816.817.815.915.1

1Data are means of triplicate. No tryptophan was detected because of acid hydrolysis. 2Fish meal-based diet was named FM; diets with 450 g/kg of fish meal replaced by six kinds of commercial fermented soybean meal were, respectively, named FSBM1, FSBM2, FSBM3, FSBM4, FSBM5, and FSBM6.