COEFICIENTES DE DIGESTIBILIDADE APARENTE DE FARINHAS DE FEIJÃO COMUM (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) IN NATURA E EXTRUSADA PARA TILÁPIA DO NILO (Oreochromis niloticus), DETERMINADOS POR DOIS MARCADORES

Abstract

The trial aimed to evaluate the apparent strain digestibility coefficients (ADC) of dry matter (DM), gross energy (GE), crude protein (CP), starch, lipids, crude fiber (CF), ashes (AS) and essential and non-essential amino acids (AA) of in natura bean flour (FI) and extruded bean flour (FE) for juvenile Nile tilapia using two digestibility markers: chromium oxide (Cr2O3) or acid insoluble ash (AIA). It was elaborated a pelleted reference diet (RD) containing 35.19% CP and 17.78 MJ / kg GE, the test diets consisted of 70% RD and 30% of FI or FE. Groups of 15 individuals (150.16 ± 20.32 g) were distributed in six digestibility aquariums of 200 L, in a 2 x 2 factorial scheme, two processing methods (FI or FE) and two markers (Cr2O3 or AIA) were evaluated, with two replicates, composing the faeces pool of each diet tested. The highest ADC referring to the interaction (processing x marker) were found for DM, GE, CP, As and essential AA as: arginine (Arg), histidine (His), isoleucine (Ile), leucine (Leu), lysine (Lys), methionine (Met), phenylalanine (Phe), threonine (Thr) and for non-essential AAs: aspartic acid (Asp), cysteine (Cys), glutamic acid (Glu), glycine (Gly), serine (Ser) and tyrosine (Tyr). The CDA of the starch and the essential AA tryptophan (Trp) and valine (Val) was higher in FE compared to FI, different from lipids, which presented better results for FI. For GE and nonessential amino acid alanine (Ala) there was no influence of dietary treatments and markers. Regardless of the processing, Met, His and Arg were the limiting AAs for diets containing bean flours. In conclusion, FE proved to be a good source of energy and nutrients, however, the low levels of Met and Cys should be considered for the dietary requirements of AA containing sulfur. The AIA marker proved to be unreliable for Nile tilapia.