Soybean meal (SBM), a commonly used protein source for animal feed, contains anti-nutritional factors such as trypsin inhibitor, phytate, oligosaccharides among others, which limit its utilization. Microbial fermentation using bacteria or fungi has the capability to improve nutritional value of SBM by altering the native composition. Both submerged and solid state fermentation processes can be ...

Background and Objectives: Pollution of the environment has become one of the very serious problems in the world. Factors contributing to these problems are both natural causes and man created activities. As livestock production intensifies, air, water and soil pollution becomes a problem. Utilization of feedstuffs especially by young pigs is influenced by the presence of anti-nutritional facto...

Various cereal brans (wheat, rice, barley and oat) were investigated for proximate composition, functional characteristics and certain anti-nutritional factors to assess their potentiality as protein and fibre sources. The major findings of this study are as follows: crude protein ranged from 9.615.03%, fat 4.07-19.31%, dietary fibre 14.0-38.95%, bulk density 0.39-0.59 g/ml, water absorption 11...