Figure 1.

Total (A) and relative (B) energy intake, carcass energy (C) energy gain (D), gain as lipid (E), gain as protein (F), calculated energy expenditure (G) and energy efficiency (H) of adult rats maintained with control (CC and LC) or soybean flour (CS or LS) or low protein (LL) diets after weaning. Values are means ± SD for the numbers of rats in parentheses. Means with different superscript letters are significantly different by one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey test (p < 0.05).