Table 1. Ingredients of agar and tapioca-based diets and vitamin solution.
| Weight (g) | Vitamin stock solution | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Components | Tapioca diet | Agar diet | % Tapioca diet | % Agar diet | Ingredients | Quantity |
| Agar | 0 | 7.1 | 0 | 3.6 | Calcium pantothanate | 9.6 g |
| Granular tapioca | 60 | 0 | 24 | 0 | Nicotine acid amide | 4.8 g |
| Chickpea powder | 171.4 | 171.4 | 70 | 89 | Riboflavin | 2.4 g |
| Ascorbic acid | 2 | 2 | 0.8 | 1 | Folic acid | 2.4 g |
| Sorbic acid | 0.86 | 0.86 | 0.3 | 0.5 | Thymine hydrochloride | 1.2 g |
| Dried active yeast | 5.7 | 5.7 | 2.3 | 3 | Pyridoxine hydrochloride | 1.2 g |
| Methyl-para-hydroxy-benzoate | 2.9 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 1.5 | Biotin | 0.096 g |
| Vitamin mixture | 1.42 | 1.42 | 0.6 | 0.7 | Vitamin B1 | 0.0048 g |
| Formaldehyde | 1.7 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.7 | Sterilized distilled water | 400 ml |
| Total | 245.98 | 193.08 | 99.8 | 100 | ||