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Table 3 Amino acid concentration (g/kg DM) of the two BSF meals and of the three experimental diets

From: Nutritional value of a partially defatted and a highly defatted black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens L.) meal for broiler chickens: apparent nutrient digestibility, apparent metabolizable energy and apparent ileal amino acid digestibility

Items

BSFp meal

BSFh meal

Basal diet

BSFp diet

BSFh diet

Indispensable amino acids

 Arginine

21.5

27.0

14.5

16.0

17.7

 Histidine

12.3

16.3

5.73

7.64

8.66

 Isoleucine

18.5

24.0

9.27

12.0

13.1

 Leucine

28.6

36.7

17.8

20.6

22.9

 Lysine

21.0

25.2

12.1

14.5

15.8

 Methionine

6.46

8.56

2.43

3.52

4.46

 Phenylalanine

16.6

21.8

10.5

12.0

13.4

 Threonine

17.2

21.8

8.06

11.0

12.1

 Valine

27.2

34.5

10.2

15.4

16.7

Dispensable amino acids

 Alanine

34.5

43.7

10.2

17.8

20.1

 Aspartic acid

37.2

48.8

22.5

26.6

30.0

 Cysteine

0.1

0.2

2.49

2.35

2.74

 Glycine

23.5

30.3

9.03

13.6

15.3

 Glutamic acid

48.7

63.7

40.1

41.4

46.2

 Proline

30.6

32.7

12.6

16.1

19.0

 Serine

20.3

26.8

11.8

14.6

16.5

 Tyrosine

26.4

34.1

5.84

11.5

13.5