Concerns about the misleading conclusions regarding estimation of the net energy value of soybean meal relative to corn using the caloric efficiency approach in pigs

Table 1 The total rations of the ingredients and the discrepancy between calculated and measured crude protein levels in diets used by Cemin et al. [2]

Items	Treatment groups (inclusion level of soybean meal, %)
Exp. 1	21	27	33	39
Total ration, %	100.023	100.026	100.010	100.018
Calculated crude protein level, %	19.2	21.3	23.4	25.6
Measured crude protein level, %	20	21.4	24.2	25.9
Exp. 2	17.5	22.0	26.5	31.0	35.5	40.0
Total ration, %	99.995	100.005	100.005	100.006	99.987	100.006
Calculated crude protein level, %	18.9	20.5	22.1	23.7	25.3	26.9
Measured crude protein level, %	17.2	19.2	20.2	22.7	23.7	25.6

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