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

Table 5 Apparent ileal digestibility coefficients (AIDC) of amino acids of the two BSF meals for broilers (n = 5)

Items	BSFp meal	BSFh meal	SEM	P-value
Indispensable amino acids
Arginine	0.79	0.80	0.015	0.841
Histidine	0.64	0.63	0.022	0.834
Isoleucine	0.83	0.87	0.018	0.293
Leucine	0.84	0.89	0.019	0.141
Lysine	0.80	0.80	0.013	0.753
Methionine	0.83	0.78	0.023	0.293
Phenylalanine	0.82	0.86	0.020	0.249
Threonine	0.73	0.77	0.022	0.675
Valine	0.90	0.91	0.015	0.833
Mean	0.80	0.81	0.016	0.917
Dispensable amino acids
Alanine	0.92	0.99	0.026	0.249
Aspartic acid	0.82	0.80	0.012	0.234
Cysteine	0.44	0.45	0.017	0.834
Glycine	0.66	0.65	0.020	0.548
Glutamic acid	0.81	0.85	0.013	0.046
Proline	0.65	0.82	0.041	0.008
Serine	0.71	0.77	0.019	0.035
Tyrosine	0.92	0.95	0.019	0.833
Mean	0.74	0.79	0.014	0.114
Overall mean^a	0.77	0.80	0.015	0.673

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