Efficacy of an Insect-Based Diet with Addition of Probiotics on Growth, Proximate Composition, Enzymatic Efficiency, and Immune Response of Nile Tilapia
Table 4
Body proximate analysis of Nile tilapia fed with different substitution levels of fish meal with insect meals.
Treatments
T0
T1
T2
T3
T4
T5
T6
T7
T8
Protein
16.3 ± 0.0577abc
16.6 ± 0.073a
16.5 ± 0.057ab
16.3 ± 0.1abc
15.9 ± 0.2885bc
16.7 ± 0.115a
16.5 ± 0.057ab
16.2 ± 0.057abc
15.8 ± 0.145c
Fat
4.3 ± 0.152ac
3.76 ± 0.088c
3.8 ± 0.057c
4.43 ± 0.120ab
4.5 ± 0.115a
3.73 ± 0.120c
3.86 ± 0.033bc
4.4 ± 0.152ab
4.53 ± 0.145a
Moisture
76.96 ± 1.065ab
74.83 ± 1.666b
75.76 ± 0.899ab
78.6 ± 0.585ab
78.83 ± 0.338ab
75.23 ± 0.783b
76.53 ± 0.548ab
78.5 ± 0.608ab
79.86 ± 0.856a
Ash
3.53 ± 0.088abc
3.366 ± 0.033c
3.5 ± 0.057abc
3.633 ± 0.088abc
3.7 ± 0.057abc
3.433 ± 0.088bc
3.66 ± 0.033abc
3.766 ± 0.088ab
3.8 ± 0.057a
The values in the same row with different superscripts differ significantly ().