Table 4. Apparent total tract digestibility of amino acids in the experimental breed dogs (beagle) fed dried and wet foods
Components | Dried – food (%) | Wet – food (%) | SEM | p-value |
Adult | Senior | Adult | Senior | Food type | Age | Interaction |
Asparagine | 90.6 | 90.2 | 91.1 | 90.1 | 0.41 | 0.83 | 0.49 | 0.79 |
Threonine | 91.1 | 91.1 | 91.9 | 90.4 | 0.38 | 0.97 | 0.39 | 0.44 |
Serine | 92.6 | 92.7 | 93.5 | 92.3 | 0.32 | 0.78 | 0.47 | 0.37 |
Glutamic acid | 93.4 | 93.1 | 93.9 | 93.0 | 0.27 | 0.80 | 0.38 | 0.62 |
Proline | 94.5 | 94.3 | 95.0 | 94.3 | 0.21 | 0.65 | 0.36 | 0.72 |
Glycine | 94.4 | 93.8 | 94.7 | 94.2 | 0.23 | 0.56 | 0.37 | 0.97 |
Alanine | 92.6 | 92.4 | 93.1 | 91.9 | 0.31 | 0.97 | 0.31 | 0.52 |
Valine | 91.2 | 90.2 | 91.4 | 89.5 | 0.40 | 0.80 | 0.12 | 0.62 |
Isoleucine | 91.6 | 90.4 | 91.6 | 89.4 | 0.42 | 0.62 | 0.10 | 0.62 |
Leucine | 92.8 | 92.5 | 93.3 | 91.8 | 0.34 | 0.89 | 0.27 | 0.51 |
Tyrosine | 92.0 | 92.6 | 93.6 | 91.9 | 0.37 | 0.59 | 0.50 | 0.17 |
Phenylalanine | 92.5 | 92.1 | 92.9 | 91.3 | 0.34 | 0.83 | 0.22 | 0.45 |
Histidine | 92.7 | 92.4 | 93.1 | 92.3 | 0.32 | 0.88 | 0.47 | 0.71 |
Lysine | 91.3 | 90.7 | 91.6 | 90.1 | 0.37 | 0.85 | 0.25 | 0.63 |
Arginine | 95.7 | 95.6 | 96.1 | 95.5 | 0.22 | 0.81 | 0.51 | 0.61 |
Cysteine | 87.2 | 87.0 | 88.3 | 86.3 | 0.47 | 0.88 | 0.34 | 0.42 |
Methionine | 93.0 | 93.3 | 93.9 | 92.0 | 0.31 | 0.76 | 0.28 | 0.14 |
Tryptophan | 88.5 | 88.6 | 88.9 | 89.5 | 0.50 | 0.62 | 0.74 | 0.84 |