Research Article

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.

TreatmentsT0T1T2T3T4T5T6T7T8

Protein16.3 ± 0.0577abc16.6 ± 0.073a16.5 ± 0.057ab16.3 ± 0.1abc15.9 ± 0.2885bc16.7 ± 0.115a16.5 ± 0.057ab16.2 ± 0.057abc15.8 ± 0.145c
Fat4.3 ± 0.152ac3.76 ± 0.088c3.8 ± 0.057c4.43 ± 0.120ab4.5 ± 0.115a3.73 ± 0.120c3.86 ± 0.033bc4.4 ± 0.152ab4.53 ± 0.145a
Moisture76.96 ± 1.065ab74.83 ± 1.666b75.76 ± 0.899ab78.6 ± 0.585ab78.83 ± 0.338ab75.23 ± 0.783b76.53 ± 0.548ab78.5 ± 0.608ab79.86 ± 0.856a
Ash3.53 ± 0.088abc3.366 ± 0.033c3.5 ± 0.057abc3.633 ± 0.088abc3.7 ± 0.057abc3.433 ± 0.088bc3.66 ± 0.033abc3.766 ± 0.088ab3.8 ± 0.057a

The values in the same row with different superscripts differ significantly ().