Dietary sophorolipid accelerates growth by modulation of gut microbiota population and intestinal environments in broiler chickens

Table 4 Effects of sophorolipid on cecal SCFA concentration of broilers^1,2,3

Treatment	CON	BAM	SPL	SEM	P-value
Absolute concentration of SCFA, μmol/g
Total SCFA	226.43^a	179.47^b	249.61^a	10.802	0.012
Acetate	185.91^a	143.14^b	206.06^a	9.984	0.017
Propionate	17.62	15.73	17.18	0.676	0.526
iso-butyrate	3.69	3.84	4.01	0.208	0.850
Butyrate	19.20^ab	16.76^b	22.36^a	0.978	0.049
Percentage of SCFA, %
Acetate	82.11	78.98	82.48	0.852	0.187
Propionate	7.76^ab	8.91^a	6.88^b	0.322	0.021
iso-butyrate	1.66	2.17	1.60	0.130	0.140
Butyrate	8.47	9.95	9.04	0.615	0.647

¹Treatments: CON, control group fed with basal diet; BAM, group fed with 10 mg/kg of bambermycin supplemented diet; SPL, group fed with 10 mg/kg of sophorolipid supplemented diet
²Abbreviations: SCFA short-chain fatty acid, SEM standard error of means
³A chick is an experimental unit; 6 replications per treatment
^{a, b} Mean values within a row have different superscript letters were significantly different (P < 0.05)

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