The Effects of Using Chemicals to Remove Slime from African Giant Land Snails Flesh during Processing on Some Nutritional and Biochemical Parameters

Table 3

Effects of different treated diets on the performance of rats and protein quality.

Parameters	Diets
	D1	D2	D3	D4
Food consumed (g)	^a	^b	^d	^c
Weight gained (g)	^a	^b	^d	^c
EFU (g/100 g)	^b	^b	^a	^a
PER	^a	^a	^a	2.50 ± 0.31^a
NPR (g)	^a	^a	^a	^a
TD (%)	^bc	^c	^a	^ab

Values are of 6 determinants, . Along the columns, values with the same letter (a, b, c, d) are not significantly different (). D1: control (washed without chemicals); D2: processed with lime-C; D3: processed with alum-C; D4: processed with salt-C; EFU: efficiency of feed utilization; PER: protein efficiency ratio; T.D: true protein digestibility; NPR: net protein ratio.