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