INTRODUCTION The glycaemic index (GI) concept ranks starchy foods according to the blood glucose responses following ingestion. When considering commonly consumed Sri Lankan meals, only a few can be categorised as low GI. However, a significant negative correlation between the GI of Sri Lankan meals and fibre content has been observed indicating the potential to reduce the GI of meals by incorp...

Shea nut meal is a by-product of the shea fat industry in West Africa. The objective was to determine the effect of shea nut meal fermentation using Aspergillus niger on growth performance of broiler chickens. An expeller shea nut meal was fermented in a closed plastic container for 8 d after the addition of 0.25 g of A. niger spores per kg of shea nut meal in 2 parts of water. Each of the 2 sh...

ABSTRACT The effect of seed meals derived from Brassica juncea, B. napus, or Sinapis alba on suppression of soilborne pathogens inciting replant disease of apple was evaluated in greenhouse trials. Regardless of plant source, seed meal amendment significantly improved apple growth in all orchard soils; however, relative differences in pathogen suppression were observed. All seed meals suppresse...

The aim of this study was to examine the effects of replacing fish meal with plant sources on growth performance, immune responses, hematological parameters and disease resistance in rainbow trout. In this study, mean of initial body weight of fish was 15±2 g and the experiment was carried out for a period of 60 days. Four experimental diets were formulated to replace 0, 40, 70 and 100% fish me...

the objectives of the study were to evaluate the effects of sabara leaf meal on growth performance, nutrient digestibility and haematological parameters of red sokoto goats. bucks were managed in a complete randomized design with 4 treatments and 3 replicates. the sabara leaf meal (slm) was fed at concentration of 0, 10, 20 and 30% in treatment 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively. the experimental diets...

Two experiments were conducted to determine the nutritive value of copra meal for grower and finisher pigs (40–95 kg). 21 The apparent nutrient digestibility of copra meal, when included at 200 and 400 g kg in the diet of both the grower and finisher pig, was determined in experiment 1. In experiment 2, productive performance was determined in group fed pigs 21 (n 5 360) offered diets ad libitu...

Meal-fed rats and rats fed ad libitum had similar rates of hepatic glycogenesis at 60 min after the initiation of re-feeding a chow meal after 22 h starvation, but hepatic PDHa (active form of pyruvate dehydrogenase) activities were 4-fold higher in the meal-fed group. In heart, PDHa activities were 3-fold higher before re-feeding and 2-fold higher after re-feeding in the meal-fed group compare...

abbasali gheisari*, peyman ghayor department of animal science, isfahan research center for agriculture and natural resources, isfahan,iran   * corresponding author e-mail: [email protected]     received: 15 august 2013 accepted: 21 november 2013       abstract   this experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of feeding 5 experimental diets containing 0, 5, 10, 15 and 20% rapesee...

A lengthening in meal duration can be used to measure an increase in orofacial mechanical hyperalgesia having similarities to the guarding behavior of humans with orofacial pain. To measure meal duration unrestrained rats are continuously kept in sound attenuated, computerized feeding modules for days to weeks to record feeding behavior. These sound-attenuated chambers are equipped with chow pe...

Hay-based diets are typically used in Parmigiano Reggiano cheese production. feeding regulation prohibits 00-rapeseed dietary inclusion. The objectives of this study were to investigate the effects substituting soybean-meal with different levels 00-rapeseed-meal dairy cows’ diets, evaluate possibility include it regulation. had a Latin square design 8 tie stall cows. isoenergetic and isoproteic...