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Table 3 Nutritional qualities of rat fed with malted finger millet-watermelon seed extruded breakfast meal

From: Extruded breakfast meal from malted finger millet (Eleusine coracana) and watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) seed flour: in-vivo nutritional qualities study

Parameters

Goldenmorn

MFMWM90

MFMWM86

MFMWM82

MFMWM78

MFMWM75

Basal

Weight gained (g)

52.00a

7.00e

5.00f

11.00d

27.17c

34.00b

4.50 g

Food intake (g)

588.00b

251.19g

330.85f

365.35e

424.61d

487.15c

593.69a

Food efficiency ratio

0.11a

0.01d

0.01d

0.03c

0.06b

0.10a

0.01d

Nitrogen retention (%)

16.29a

13.33b

9.96d

8.65e

12.51c

10.60d

3.67f

Biological value (%)

93.03a

89.75b

87.91c

88.35b

87.82c

88.54b

47.15d

Net protein utilization (%)

90.80a

88.75b

85.65c

84.51d

85.92c

85.86c

45.58e

Protein efficiency ratio

1.74a

0.49d

0.33e

0.64c

1.62b

1.79a

0.11f

Protein retention

8.98a

1.48d

0.76f

1.30e

4.73b

4.44c

0.02g

Relative organ weight (g)

 Kidney

2.86b

0.26c

0.34a

0.20e

0.23d

0.26c

0.08f

 Liver

2.45b

2.63a

1.89d

1.48e

1.30f

2.16c

0.87g

 Heart

0.35a

0.26b

0.24c

0.20d

0.26b

0.23c

0.07e

  1. Means with different alphabetical superscripts in the same row are significantly different at P < 0.05
  2. Key: Goldenmorn (commercial control breakfast meal); Basal (animal chow); MFMWM90: Malted finger millet:Watermelon seeds (90.00:10.00%); MFMWM86: Malted finger millet:Watermelon seeds (86.25:13.75%); MFMWM82: Malted finger millet:Watermelon seeds (82.50:17.50%); MFMWM78: Malted finger millet:Watermelon seeds (78.75:21.25%) and MFMWM75: Malted finger millet:Watermelon seeds (75.00:25.00%)