Skip to main content

Table 5 Chemical composition of the three experimental diets: fishmeal diet, enzyme hydrolysed mealworm diet and enzyme hydrolysed superworm diet

From: Effect of two insect meals on the gut commensal microbiome of healthy sea trout (Salmo trutta vr. trutta)

Ingredients (g kg−1)

Diets

CONa

MWb (42%)

SWc (44%)

Fish meal

250

145

140

Mealworm meala

-

100

-

Superworm mealb

-

-

100

Soybean meal

100

100

100

Wheat flour

219

220

226

Corn gluten

150

150

150

Blood meal

70

100

100

Brewer yeast

35

35

35

Fish oil

164

143

140

Dicalcium phosphate

7.2

0.8

2.1

Premixc

1.5

1.5

1.5

DL-Methionine

1.2

2.2

2.4

L-Lysine HCL

1.1

1.8

2.0

L-Threonine

0.6

0.6

0.7

Proximate analysis (% DM)

 Dry matter

93.0

93.7

93.5

 Crude protein

48.0

51.1

49.8

 Crude lipid

16.3

14.6

15.3

 Ash

6.5

5.4

5.1

 Crude fibre

1.7

1.7

1.7

 Chitind

0

9.3

4.8

 NFEe

35.0

33.8

35.0

 Gross energy (MJ kg−1)

22.18

22.77

22.55

  1. Fishmeal diet (CON)
  2. Enzyme hydrolysed mealworm diet (MW)
  3. Enzyme hydrolysed superworm diet (SW)
  4. aMealworm meal (dry matter: 95.58%, crude protein: 47.0%, crude lipid: 29.6%)
  5. bSuperworm meal (dry matter: 96.32%, crude protein: 49.3%, crude lipid: 33.6%)
  6. cPolfamix BASF Poland Ltd. (Kutno, Poland) (g kg−1): vitamin A, 1 000 000 IU; vitamin D3, 200 000 IU; vitamin E, 1.5 g; vitamin K, 0.2 g; vitamin B1, 0.05 g; vitamin B2, 0.4 g; vitamin B12, 0.001 g; nicotinic acid, 2.5 g; D-calcium pantothenate, 1.0 g; choline chloride, 7.5 g; folic acid, 0.1 g; methionine, 150.0 g; lysine, 150.0 g; Fe, 2.5 g; Mn, 6.5 g; Cu, 0.8 g; Co, 0.04 g; Zn, 4.0 g; J, 0.008 g; carrier > 1000.0 g
  7. dCalculated based on chitin content of insect meals
  8. eNitrogen-free extract = 1,000 – (crude protein + ether extract + crude fibre + ash)
Back to article page

BMC Veterinary Research

ISSN: 1746-6148

Contact us