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Table 4 Effect of experimental diets on α-tocopherol, γ-tocopherol and pigments of liver from broilers

From: Impact of dietary Chlorella vulgaris and carbohydrate-active enzymes incorporation on plasma metabolites and liver lipid composition of broilers

Item

Control

CH

CHR

CHM

SEM

p-value

Diterpene profile, µg/g

α-Tocopherol

6.66

6.07

5.43

4.91

0.626

0.199

γ-Tocopherol

1.26b

0.822a

0.833a

0.840a

0.070

< 0.0001

Pigments, µg/g

β-Carotene

0.977a

3.66c

3.15bc

2.11ab

0.388

< 0.0001

Chlorophyll-a1

2.44a

2.12a

3.66ab

4.21b

0.477

0.011

Chlorophyll-b2

4.94

3.36

6.12

5.68

0.897

0.161

Total chlorophylls3

7.33

5.49

9.78

9.67

1.38

0.102

Total carotenoids4

2.14a

10.1b

10.5b

8.49b

0.860

< 0.001

Total chlorophylls + Carotenoids5

9.48a

15.7b

20.2b

18.2b

1.65

< 0.001

  1. The broilers were fed: (1) a corn-soybean based diet (Control); (2) the based diet plus 10 % C. vulgaris (CH); (3) diet 2 supplemented with 0.005 % Rovabio® Excel AP; and (4) diet 2 supplemented with 0.01 % of a pre-selected four-CAZyme mixture (CHM)
  2. SEM - standard error of the mean
  3. 1 Ca = 11.24 × A662 − 2.04 × A645
  4. 2 Cb = 0.13 × A645 − 4.19 × A662
  5. 3 Ca + b = 7.05 × A662 + 18.09 × A645
  6. 4 Cx + c = (1000 × A470 − 1.90 × Ca − 63.14 × Cb) /214
  7. 5 (Ca + b) + (Cx + c)
  8. a,b,c Mean values within a row with unlike superscript letters are significantly different (p < 0·05)