Canola Meal in finishing pig diet

Table 1. Proximate and amino acid composition of domestic canola meal sources

Item (%)

Domestic Canola meal

Dry Matter

88.63

Crude Protein

37.77

Ash

6.29

Crude Fiber

9.50

Calcium

0.66

Phosphorus

1.03

Neutral detergent fiber

25.06

Acid detergent fiber

16.18

Amino acid

Essential

Arginine

2.13

Histidine

0.97

Isoleucine

1.36

Leucine

2.51

Lysine

2.09

Methionine

0.74

Phenylalanine

1.44

Threonine

1.58

Tryptophan

0.37

Valine

1.72

Sub-mean

14.91

Non-essential

Alanine

1.57

Aspartic acid

2.53

Cystine

0.91

Glutamic acid

6.34

Glycine

1.80

Proline

2.29

Serine

1.58

Tyrosine

0.95

Sub-mean

17.97

Total-mean

32.88

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