Table 4. Vitamin C on the liver and whole body of juvenile red drum Sciaenops ocellatus fed different dietary vitamin C diets for 70 days (g/kg wet weight)

Parameters Vitamin C concentration (mg/kg diet)
0 100 200 400 600 800 1,000
Vitamin C in liver (mg/100 g) 0.47 ± 0.03a 0.54 ± 0.02ab 0.64 ± 0.02cd 0.77 ± 0.03e 0.70 ± 0.01de 0.63 ± 0.01c 0.61 ± 0.02bc
Vitamin C in whole body (mg/100 g) 0.42 ± 0.02a 0.84 ± 0.07bc 0.95 ± 0.01c 1.18 ± 0.02d 0.86 ± 0.04bc 0.85 ± 0.04bc 0.75 ± 0.10b
Values are means ± SE (n = 9).
Values with different superscript letters within a row are significantly different (p < 0.05).