Antioxidant Effects of the Dietary Inclusion of Dried Tomato Pulp on Sperm

Food processing by-products are commonly used as feed ingredients for livestock. Wet tomato pulp is byproduct containing tomato seeds and skin residues and obtained during processing of tomatoes for paste, juice, ketchup etc. Tomato production in Turkey was around 10 million tons and approximately 3 million tons tomatoes were used for processing of tomatoes in 2010 [48]. During production of tomato paste, 3-7% of raw material is out as waste [29]. Therefore, the use of tomato pulp as a feed ingredient for animals after drying the wet tomato pulp may be economically. Some researchers [19, 31] report that dried tomato pulp may include up to 21.5, 39.8, 16, 43.3 and 4% crude protein, crude fiber, ether extract, nitrogen free extract and crude ash, respectively. AYHAN and AKTAN [6] report Summary