Dietary Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate (EGCG) Improves Nonspecific Immune Response of Chinese Rice Field Eel (Monopterus albus)

Table 4

Effect of EGCG supplementation on whole-body composition of Monopterus albus (%).

Parameter	Dietary treatments						P value
	Control	EGCG25	EGCG50	EGCG100	EGCG200	EGCG400	ANOVA	Linear	Quadratic
Crude protein	17.53 ± 0.21	17.35 ± 0.37	17.68 ± 0.24	17.82 ± 0.42	17.92 ± 0.17	18.07 ± 0.38	0.62	0.09	0.20
Crude lipid	6.29 ± 0.11^a	5.77 ± 0.11^bc	5.66 ± 0.10^c	6.12 ± 0.10^ab	6.21 ± 0.07^a	5.70 ± 0.11^c	0.002	0.35	0.32
Ash	2.14 ± 0.03^c	2.20 ± 0.05^bc	2.29 ± 0.00^ab	2.35 ± 0.03^a	2.37 ± 0.02^a	2.40 ± 0.06^a	0.002	≤0.001	<0.001
Moisture	71.67 ± 0.64	72.46 ± 0.63	71.84 ± 0.37	71.77 ± 0.41	71.84 ± 0.46	72.45 ± 0.60	0.28	0.20	0.15

Note. Data are presented as means ± SEM (n = 3). Means in the same row sharing the same or no superscript letters are not significantly different. Means with different letters indicate significant differences in the treatments ().