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 6

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

Items (μg/g)	Control	0.02%	0.04%	0.08%	SEM	value
Essential amino acids (EAAs)
Arg	29.12	28.79	29.63	30.23	0.90	0.96
His	24.04	23.34	25.05	24.93	0.41	0.45
Ile	20.62^ab	20.95^ab	17.53^b	23.55^a	0.79	0.04
Leu	46.52	41.74	42.67	47.43	1.00	0.12
Lys	36.85	35.13	30.34	33.47	1.88	0.71
Met	13.60	13.94	12.99	16.23	0.44	0.10
Phe	133.24	127.39	123.11	135.70	3.75	0.65
Thr	178.84^b	178.13^b	227.74^a	140.11^b	0.34	< 0.01
Val	31.57	35.74	40.61	38.62	1.39	0.13
BCAAs^1	106.56^ab	94.56^b	90.84^b	113.91^a	3.30	0.03
EAAs^2	381.75	337.81	342.51	362.37	8.92	0.30
Nonessential amino acids (NEAAs)
Ala	163.91	209.80	192.37	201.69	7.93	0.22
Asp	6.80^a	4.84^b	5.34^ab	5.44^ab	0.28	0.09
Cys	10.34	9.61	10.61	9.76	0.29	0.60
Glu	111.43	102.97	104.27	98.11	3.92	0.70
Gly	68.67^b	82.28^a	67.67^b	75.54^ab	2.31	0.07
Ser	87.50^b	82.97^b	109.88^a	74.63^c	3.36	< 0.01
Tyr	20.17	18.28	18.05	18.39	9.73	0.39
Pro	32.55^a	29.23^a	32.41^a	22.95^b	1.07	< 0.01
FAAs^3	371.14	418.36	402.58	399.10	8.84	0.31
NEAAs^4	674.67	662.88	713.99	645.26	13.30	0.29
TAAs^5	1000.20	1027.16	1056.50	1007.63	17.52	0.68

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. ⁴NEAA: 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 .