OBJECTIVES To compare the energy and macronutrient content of main meals created by television chefs with ready meals sold by supermarkets, and to compare both with nutritional guidelines published by the World Health Organization and UK Food Standards Agency. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SETTING Three supermarkets with the largest share of the grocery market in the United Kingdom, 2010. ...

the present study investigated the effects of prebiotic (α-mune), a mixture of mannan oligosaccharide, β-1,3 and β-1,6 glucan, on the growth performance, haematology and innate immunity of beluga sturgeon ( huso huso ) juvenile. fish (46±3 g) were allocated into 12 tanks (15 fish per tank) and triplicate groups were fed a control diet or diets containing 1.5, 3.0 and 4.5 g kg -1 prebiotic for 4...

This study was designed to evaluate the effect of graded levels scent leaf meals on blood parameters and carcass characteristics among two broiler strains. A total 150 unsexed broilers consisting 75 Abor Acre Cobb were randomly allotted into 5 treatments 15 birds for each strain. Treatment one (T1) had no meal (control); treatment (T2), three (T3), four (T4) five (T5) 0.5%, 1.0%, 1.5%, 2.0% thr...

The swimming performance of hatchery-reared. juvenile shovelnose sturgeon Scaphirhynchus plarorynchus and pallld sturgeon S. albus was studied in a laboratory swim tunnel at 20°C and 1O0C. The mean 30-min critical swimming speed was not significantly different between species at either temperature (36.9 crd s for shovelnose sturgeon and 35.9 cm/s for pallid utur-geon at 20°C. 19.4 cmls for shov...

The aim of the research was to comparative study effectiveness synthetic antioxidants – lipid-soluble (butylated hydroxytoluene, BHT) and water–soluble (trolox) analogues vitamin E for cryopreservation Russian sturgeon sterlet sperm in presence modified Stein’s medium. ability phenolic reduce level lipid peroxidation sperm, beneficial effect on motility thawed has been shown. addition lipid- wa...

this study compared the effects of different levels of dietary fat on growth performance, liver enzymes and blood biochemical of juvenile siberian sturgeon (acipenser bearii) was designed for 12 weeks. for this reason 135 fish (15.6 ± 0.33g; mean ± sd) at nine 500 liter fiberglass tanks, each one containing 15 fish. three experimental diets with the same protein (42 %) and 3 fat levels 10, 15 a...

the aim of this study was to show the effect of four feeding regimes on thyroid hormones concentrations, growth performance and food coefficient in rainbow trout applied through 4 treatments and 3 replications in winter 2006. in this research, samples of rainbow trout with an initial mean weight (so) 47.19±0.42 used in each rearing unite. fish were fed twice a day ad libitum as follows: treatme...

An experiment was conducted on laying quails to determine optimum dietary level of Ashwagandha supplementation on egg production and egg quality traits at Instructional poultry farm Nagla, GBPUA&T. Hundred quails were randomly distributed in four treatments and reared on standard managemental conditions. The root powder of Ashwagandha was added over the basal ration at 0.5% level (T2), 1% (T3),...

the mucus layer on the skin of fish contain a several of antimicrobial compounds that provide a first line of defense against fish pathogens. this study was conducted to evaluate the effects of different levels of prebiotic grobiotic®-a on antimicrobial activity and some immune parameters of mucus of cultured juvenile beluga (huso huso). for this purpose, four groups of beluga sturgeon with mea...