A Review and Meta-analysis of the Effects of Replacing Fishmeal with Insect Meals on Growth of Tilapias and Sharptooth Catfish

Table 6

Software predicted nutritional composition (% DM) and cost ($/kg) of formulated feeds.

	% insect inclusion
Component	Control (FM)	Gonimbrasia belina	Schistocerca gregaria	Musca domestica	Macrotermes natalensis	Gryllotalpa africana
Maize	25.14	2.50	11.00	10.00	10.00	22.42
Fishmeal	41.62	20.00	20.38	18.11	18.59	23.08
Insect	0	19.74	15.00	15.00	15.00	21.24
Cotton seed meal	14.58	28.70	48.93	48.26	44.02	13.16
Maize bran	13.66	4.06	6.68	3.62	7.39	15.09
Oil	1	1	1	1	1	1
Vitamin & mineral premix	2	2	2	2	2	2
Binder	2	2	2	2	2	2
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100
CP	35	35	35	35	35	35
ME (MJ/kg)	12	12	12	12	12	12
Cost ($/kg)	0.7901	0.7429	0.5993	0.5700	0.5466	0.6087