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  • Nutritional value of beans and lentils in rats = Hranidbena vrijednost graha i leće u štakora
    Pirman, Tatjana ...
    The nutritional value of Slovenian variety of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)Češnjevec and French variety of lentil (Lens esculenta Puyensis var. Anicia) was evaluated on young growing rats. Before ... the preparation of diets, both legumes were cooked and analysed on the crude nutrients and mineral elements. Diets were supplemented with lacking sulphur containing amino acids.Two experiments were performed with each lagume and compared to a pair fed on casein. The growth rate and average dry matter intake were similar in all four groups of young growing rats in the experiments. The amount of faecesand faecal N extraction increased and nitrogen digestibility decreased significantly (P<-0.001) in legume fed rats as compared to their casein contols. In contrast, the biological value of protein was apparently unaffected in cooked bean diet, but biological value of lentil protein was significantly (P<-0.001) lower than in the casein group. Average net protein utilisation (NPU) of cooked lentil was 57.2% and of cooked bean 73.1% of their controls. Vicosity of small intestine content, and average amount and proportion of volatile fatty acids (VFA) in large intestine of cooked bean rats were higher than in other groups. Even if common bean and lentil had similar protein content, but different contents of fibre, starch and antinutritional factors, their metabolism in the body was different.
    Source: Krmiva : časopis za hranidbu životinja, proizvodnju i tehnologiju krme : review for animal feeding, production and feed technology. - ISSN 0023-4850 (Letn. 43, št. 3, 2001, str. 133-143)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2001
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 1126792

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