Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

Table 2 Effect of enzyme supplementation on percent apparent ileal digestibility (AID) and total-tract digestibility (TTD) of nutrients in 38 kg pigs ¹

From: Strategies to improve fiber utilization in swine

	Diet²			Statistics
AID,%	Basal	B + 0.05%	B + 0.10%	B vs Enz	0.05 vs 0.10
DM	70.86	69.13	70.50	0.33	0.25
Energy	70.93	69.48	70.71	0.44	0.31
CP	78.29	75.51	76.54	0.04	0.37
Starch	97.95	98.01	98.12	0.51	0.59
NDF	1.21	9.52	10.05	0.02	0.88
ADF	4.33	4.36	5.22	0.91	0.84
TDF	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Crude fat	61.40	62.94	62.18	0.49	0.68
P	49.62	49.54	49.00	0.86	0.80
TTD,%
DM	87.42	88.61	88.50	0.01	0.62
Energy	86.51	87.42	87.26	0.01	0.51
CP	86.47	88.08	87.39	0.01	0.10
Starch	99.24	99.26	99.31	0.53	0.44
NDF	54.62	55.62	56.05	0.36	0.77
ADF	64.84	61.40	65.92	0.40	0.01
TDF	60.61	65.36	65.61	0.01	0.86
Crude fat	80.14	80.51	78.24	0.51	0.09
P	53.80	61.73	57.83	0.01	0.01

¹Average initial weight, 38.2 kg, 4×4 Latin Square with 14 d periods (4 d adapt, 5 d fecal collection, 3 d transition, 2 d ileal collection) [64].
²Enzyme contained 660 β-glucanase units/g and 22 hemoglobin units/g.

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