The basal diet was modified from the work of Phumee et al. [23].
Vitamins and minerals mixture were similar to that of Hien &
Doolgindachbaporn [24]. The optimum LMWA (2 g kg1) was obtained
from previous work [25]. The diets contain approximately
37.9% crude protein and 8.6% lipid. The experiment consisted of 4
diet treatments i.e., 0 (Diet 1, Control), 2 g kg1 of LWMA (Diet 2),
108 cfu g1 L. plantarum (Diet 3), and 2 g kg1 LMWA þ 108 cfu g1
L. plantarum for Diet 4 (Table 1). The ingredients were milled into
powder to pass through 320 mm mesh and were thoroughly mixed
with soybean oil, and thenwater was added to produce stiff dough.
The doughwas then passed through the mincer to form pellets. The
pellets were finally dried in an oven at 50 C to 10% and kept at 4 C
until use.