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Table 3 Apparent ileal starch digestibility in faba beans and peas

From: Methodological impact of starch determination on starch content and ileal digestibility of starch in grain legumes for growing pigs

Species

Cultivar

Ileal starch digestibility (in %)

SEM

P-value

  

polarimetric

enzymatic

  

Pisum sativum

Santana1

86abc

85ab

  

Jutta1

89ab

88a

  

Phönix1

83c

80bc

  

Harnas1

89a

84ab

  

Rocket1

83c

77c

  

Hardy1

85bc

82bc

  

LSmeans

86d

83eB

0.8

<0.001

Vicia faba

Aurelia1

86

81

  

Divine2

86*

82

  

Gloria1

85

77

  

Limbo2

81*

75

  

Fuego2

84*

80

  

Espresso2

85*

82

  

LSmeans

84d

80eA

0.8

<0.001

  1. Abbreviations: SEM standard error of the means
  2. 1White flowered cultivar
  3. 2Colored flowered cultivar
  4. a,b,cWithin a column, means without a common superscript differ within species (P < 0.05)
  5. d,eWithin a row, means without a common superscript differ between starch determination methods (P < 0.05)
  6. A,BWithin a column, means without a common superscript differ between species (P < 0.05)
  7. *linear effect of dietary content of condensed tannins (P < 0.05)