Table 10. Apparent digestibility (%) of various ingredients by grass carp
Feed ingredients	Dry matter	Crude protein	Crude lipid
Animal origin
Fishmeal (imported)	83.06	87.54	83.83
Fishmeal (local)	81.51	84.04	81.46
Crab meal	56.68	80.22	59.23
Meat meal	59.13	79.21	81.36
Plant origin
Corn	77.57	64.53	73.09
Wheat bran	62.61	73.2	52.42
Wheat byproduct	61.64	71.53	53.22
Rice bran	47.41	76.36	56.99
Wheat powder	79.37	67.03	75.89
Wheat	88.17	87.06	82.49
Barley	59.97	59.36	50.09
Corn residue	62.61	70.99	78.32
Rice	51.21	64.33	58.92
Rapeseed meal	68.62	77.81	81.33
Yellow rapeseed meal	74.8	86.03	81.79
Black rapeseed meal	68.31	79.45	82.69
Double-low rapeseed meal	66.4	86.15	70.89
Soybean meal	75.44	87.53	82.19
Expanded soybean	79.1	89.14	74.89
Sesame meal	70.19	80.2	59.59
Cottonseed meal	59.49	75.22	51.16
Corn germ meal	58.69	77.1	50.23
Corn gluten meal	63.36	68.91	57.09
Distiller's grains meal	71.71	68.47	69.09
Brewers dried yeast	64.24	85.04	82.53
Data source: Luo et al. (2001); Lin et al. (2001)