The control diet based on corn and soybean meal fed to
ileal-cannulated pigs for 56.0 kg of BW. The pigs were
provided with a control diet (CON), or a diet in which corn
and soybean meal partly were replaced by 5% inulin (INU)
or carboxymethylcellulose sodium (CMC) in a double 3 3
Latin square design at 0800 and 1600 h (Table 1). Vitamins
and minerals were included in the diets to meet or exceed
nutritional requirements of growing pigs (NRC, 1998).
Chromic oxide was included in all diets as an indigestible
marker. The daily feed allowance was adjusted to 3 times
the maintenance requirement for energy (i.e., 106 kcal of
ME/kg of BW0.75; NRC, 1998). The diets were offered to the
pigs as pellets.