Nutritive and Anti-nutritive Evaluation of Cnidoscolus aurifolia Leaves

Nutritive and Non-Nutritive Sweeteners: A Review

The importance of sugar as the principal dietary substrate that drives the caries process has led to growing interest in sugar substitutes. Dynamic relation exists between sugars and oral health. Dental profession shares an interest in the search for safe, palatable sugar substitutes to prevent dental caries and have attempted to persuade their patients to adopt special dietary programs to limi...

Soy Oligosaccharides and Soluble Non-starch Polysaccharides: A Review of Digestion, Nutritive and Anti-nutritive Effects in Pigs and Poultry

Soybean contains a high concentration of carbohydrates that consist mainly of non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) and oligosaccharides. The NSP can be divided into insoluble NSP (mainly cellulose) and soluble NSP (composed mainly of pectic polymers, which are partially soluble in water). Monogastric animals do not have the enzymes to hydrolyze these carbohydrates, and thus their digestion occurs b...

Nutritive Value of Sawdust

The present study was undertaken to observe the chemical composition of different types of sawdust available in the urban and peri-urban areas of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Twenty different types of sawdust from different plants were collected from study areas. Chemical analyses of the samples were carried out in triplicate for moisture, dry matter (DM), metabolizable energy (ME), crude protein (C...

Nutritive Requirements of Swine

THE HOG excels other livestock as an economical converter of feed into body tissue, the products of which are largely meat and fat. Fundamentally, the nutritive requirements of swine are not so complicated as those of other classes of livestock. The swine ration is largely made up of concentrated feeds with only a small proportion of roughage, aside from good pasture. Hogs grow rapidly and most...

Nutritive Value of Rice