Effects of Dietary Carbohydrate Levels on the Growth and Glucose Metabolism of Juvenile Swimming Crab, Portunus trituberculatus

Table 4

Proximate composition in whole body, muscle, and hepatopancreas of Portunus trituberculatus fed with different carbohydrate levels for 8 weeks (g kg^-1, wet weight).

Proximate composition (g kg^-1)	Dietary carbohydrate levels (g kg^-1)
	0	60	120	180	240	300
Whole body
Moisture	75.11±0.03	72.21±0.03	72.48±0.01	75.43±0.00	72.40±0.01	75.32±0.03
Protein	11.46±0.27	11.59±0.12	12.27±0.23	12.58±0.18	11.92±0.14	11.44±0.11
Lipid	1.38±0.08^a	2.28±0.14^b	1.95±0.06^b	1.95±0.16^b	2.08±0.10^b	1.89±0.19^b
Ash	9.19±0.13^a	10.00±0.14^b	10.17±0.08^b	10.14±0.13^b	9.16±0.21^a	9.14±0.24^a
Hepatopancreas
Moisture
Protein
Lipid
Muscle
Moisture
Protein
Lipid

Data are presented as the of three replicates (). Means in each line with different superscript letters are significantly different ().