Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7592035 | Food Chemistry | 2015 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
The objective of the study was to determine the quality of sunflower, soybean, crambe, radish forage and physic nut, by measuring chemical composition, in vitro digestibility and kinetics of thermal decomposition processes of mass loss and heat flow. Lipid was inversely correlated with protein of whole seed (RÂ =Â â0.67), meal (RÂ =Â â0.95), and press cake (RÂ =Â â0.78), and positively correlated with the enthalpy (ÎH) of whole seed. Soybean seed and meal presented a high in vitro digestibility but poor energy sources with ÎH averaging 5907.5Â J/g and 2570.1Â J/g for whole seed and meal, respectively. As suggested by the release of heat, measured by ÎH, whole seeds of crambe (6295.1Â J/g), radish forage (6182.7Â J/g), and physic nut (6420.0Â J/g) may be potential energy sources for ruminant animals. The thermal analysis provided additional information besides that obtained from the usual wet chemistry and in vitro measurements.
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Authors
LuÃs Carlos Vinhas Ítavo, Cláudia Muniz Soares, Camila Celeste Brandão Ferreira Ítavo, Alexandre Menezes Dias, Hélène Veronique Petit, Eduardo Souza Leal, Anderson Dias Vieira de Souza,