Amino acid and mineral digestibility, bone ash, and plasma inositol is increased by including microbial phytase in diets for growing pigs

Table 1 Analyzed composition of ingredients

Item	Ground maize	Soybean meal	Lactose	Calcium carbonate	Monocalcium phosphate
Gross energy, kcal/kg	3,829	4,193	3,591	-	-
Dry matter, %	85.53	88.27	94.96	99.99	93.88
Ash, %	1.70	7.47	0.30	89.68	81.35
Crude protein, %	5.91	45.60	-	-	-
AEE^a, %	3.86	1.63	-	-	-
Ca, %	0.04	0.28	0.02	38.93	17.26
P, %	0.25	0.59	0.01	0.03	20.46
Phytate^b, %	0.63	1.54	-	-	-
Phytate-bound P, %	0.18	0.43	-	-	-
Non-phytate P^c, %	0.07	0.16	-	-	-

^aAEE Acid hydrolyzed ether extract
^bPhytate was calculated by dividing the concentration of phytate-bound P by 0.282 [20]
^cNon-phytate P was calculated as the difference between total P and phytate-bound P

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