Table 1 Ingredients and proximate composition (g/kg dry diet) of experimental diets with increasing substitution level of fishmeal with mealworm meal.

CMC carboxymethyl cellulose.
^aMwM denotes a mealworm meal. The number following the letters denotes the % of MwM added, for each diet.
^bDanish fishmeal purchased from Cargill, Penang, Malaysia (dry matter: 86.9%; crude protein: 79.0%; crude lipid: 8.6%).
^cFed with C. necator cells as finishing diet (dry matter: 94.2%; crude protein: 75.47%; crude lipid: 9.9%; ash: 6.8%; fiber: 11.0%).
^dVitamin premix (g kg⁻¹ of premix): inositol, 5; ascorbic acid, 45; choline chloride, 75; niacin, 4.5; pyridoxine HCl, 1; riboflavin, 1; thiamin mononitrate, 0.92; cholecalciferol, 0.083; calcium d-panthothenate, 3; retinyl acetate, 0.6; dl-α-tocopheryl acetate (500 IU g⁻¹), 8; menadione sodium bisulfide, 1.67; d-biotin, 0.02; folic acid, 0.09; cellulose, 845.11; vitamin B₁₂, 0.00135.
^eMineral premix (g kg⁻¹ of premix): calcium lactate, 327; Ca(H₂PO₄)₂·H₂O, 270.98; FeSO₄·H₂O, 25; KCl, 50; MgSO₄·7H₂O, 132; NaCl, 60; KI, 0.15; MnO₂, 0.8; CuSO₄·5H₂O, 0.785; CoCO₃, 1; ZnO, 3; CaCO₃, 129.27; Na₂SeO₃·5H₂O, 0.011.
^fNitrogen free extract = 100 − (lipid + crude protein + fiber + ash).

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