Inositol Inclusion Affects Growth, Body Composition, Antioxidant Performance, and Lipid Metabolism of Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides)

Table 3

Effects of dietary inositol level in diet on the composition (% wet weight) of whole body, muscle, and liver of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides).

Item	Dietary treatment
	G1	G2	G3	G4	G5	G6
Whole body
Moisture	70.38 ± 1.71	71.64 ± 2.36	71.44 ± 0.47	70.55 ± 0.47	71.02 ± 1.34	71.67 ± 2.54
Crude protein	17.55 ± 0.27	16.91 ± 0.35	17.02 ± 0.59	17.77 ± 0.71	17.81 ± 0.39	17.35 ± 0.48
Crude lipid	5.9 ± 0.31^a	5.39 ± 0.11^b	5.39 ± 0.56^b	5.12 ± 0.35^b	5.1 ± 0.27^b	4.94 ± 0.24^b
Ash	3.74 ± 0.34	3.78 ± 0.45	4.1 ± 0.29	4.03 ± 0.25	4.0 ± 0.36	3.85 ± 0.38
Muscle
Moisture	78.23 ± 0.49	77.79 ± 0.67	77.7 ± 0.29	77.69 ± 1.36	78.05 ± 0.39	77.9 ± 0.59
Crude protein	19.08 ± 0.48^b	19.55 ± 0.41^a	19.6 ± 0.58^a	19.85 ± 0.49^a	19.54 ± 0.8^a	19.73 ± 0.26^a
Crude lipid	1.11 ± 0.03^a	1.07 ± 0.09^ab	1.04 ± 0.08^b	1.05 ± 0.05^b	1.03 ± 0.02^b	1.02 ± 0.08^b
Ash	1.32 ± 0.12	1.24 ± 0.13	1.24 ± 0.08	1.32 ± 0.08	1.3 ± 0.1	1.31 ± 0.09
Liver
Moisture	70.13 ± 0.2	70.9 ± 0.07	70.95 ± 0.09	70.13 ± 0.11	69.79 ± 0.08	70.06 ± 0.12
Crude lipid	5.18 ± 0.11^a	4.35 ± 0.48^b	3.34 ± 0.15^c	4.38 ± 0.17^b	4.41 ± 0.15^b	4.04 ± 0.18^b

Duncan’s multiple range test was performed in all groups, and values within a row with a common superscript letter are not significantly different from the other dietary groups (; mean ± SEM; n = 3).