Nutritive value of lucerne-leaf proteins

Nutritive value of tropical tree leaf meals in adult sows

Tree leaf meals (TLM) are increasingly used in the tropics to feed pigs. The nutritive value of the TLM of cocoyam (Xanthosoma saggitifolium), mulberry ( Morus alba) and Trichanthera gigantea, their effect on the digestive tract and their fermentation rate in the large intestine, were determined in adult sows given diets containing 150 or 300 g TLM per kg. The TLM contained from 8·5 to 12·0 MJ ...

Cvi. Antiscorbutic Value of Lucerne

DURING the course of an investigation into the distribution of the antiscorbutic factor in some South African foodstuffs specimens of the common lucerne, or alfalfa (Medicago sativa) were examined, and it was found that, as judged by the indophenol reaction, this plant was an outstandingly rich source of vitamin C. According to the report on the vitamins issued by the Medical Research Council [...

Nutritive value of vegetable proteins and its enhancement by admixture.

Introduction It is only since the beginning of the present century that different proteins have been accredited with different nutritive values. Previously, the proteins in a diet represented purely the necessary nitrogenous fraction, and were ‘proteins’ and nothing more. The conception of differing ‘biological values ’ possessed by different proteins was founded on the experimental work of Max...

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 Value of Rice