Effects of Dietary Chlorogenic Acid Supplementation Derived from Lonicera macranthoides Hand-Mazz on Growth Performance, Free Amino Acid Profile, and Muscle Protein Synthesis in a Finishing Pig Model

Table 5

Effects of dietary CGA supplementation on free amino acid profile in the LD muscle of finishing pigs.

Items (μg/g)	Control	0.02%	0.04%	0.08%	SEM	value
Essential amino acids (EAAs)
Arg	21.82	16.61	18.14	20.36	1.07	0.36
His	19.16	17.47	18.57	17.22	0.70	0.78
Ile	16.54	12.51	13.97	15.43	0.78	0.32
Leu	37.23	28.50	30.86	33.76	1.50	0.21
Lys	24.75^b	23.37^b	42.73^a	27.48^b	2.35	< 0.01
Met	14.24	7.33	9.09	8.57	0.98	0.38
Phe	123.34	114.73	98.68	119.35	4.09	0.13
Thr	96.29	89.93	93.51	95.90	4.44	0.97
Val	24.97^b	24.21^b	33.97^a	29.22^ab	1.30	0.03
BCAAs^1	85.03	65.22	69.81	78.41	3.49	0.20
EAAs^2	409.07	362.62	333.78	368.47	13.09	0.26
Nonessential amino acids (NEAAs)
Ala	109.36	100.93	99.04	122.08	6.22	0.62
Asp	6.50	5.93	6.76	7.59	0.33	0.34
Cys	8.81^b	10.67^a	10.45^a	9.87^ab	0.27	0.04
Glu	65.29	59.99	73.50	59.93	4.01	0.58
Gly	43.34	43.37	45.20	42.80	1.40	0.95
Ser	48.52	45.36	46.83	47.83	1.85	0.95
Tyr	15.59^c	18.79^ab	20.00^a	17.21^bc	0.49	< 0.01
Pro	12.44	11.52	14.41	11.20	0.64	0.25
FAAs^3	254.64	213.85	234.39	264.32	12.07	0.54
NEAAs^4	324.32	295.37	303.67	333.25	13.25	0.76
TAAs^5	733.30	638.59	637.45	701.72	25.18	0.47

¹BCAAs: branched-chain amino acids, including Ile, Leu, and Val. ²EAAs: essential amino acids, including Arg, His, Ile, Leu, Lys, Met, Phe, Thr, and Val. ³FAAs: flavor amino acids, including Glu, Asp, Ala, Arg, and Gly. ⁴NEAAs: nonessential amino acids, including Ala, Asp, Cys, Glu, Gly, Ser, Tyr, and Pro. ⁵TAAs: total amino acids. ^a,b,cValues in the same row with different superscript letters are significantly different at .