Hostname: page-component-599cfd5f84-jhfc5 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-07T07:02:19.588Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Protein value and amino-acid balance of condensed herring solubles and spontaneously heated herring meal. Chick experiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

B. Laksesvela
B. Laksesvela
Affiliation:
Herring Oil and Meal Industry Research Institute (S.S.F.), Straumsgrend, Norway
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

1. In a series of tests chicks were fed up to 4 weeks of age on a ‘purified’ diet supplemented with 10% of protein from either herring meal or condensed herring solubles.

2. The solubles alone appeared of negligible value as a protein source, but certain mixtures of solubles and meal protein proved superior to meal alone, although the levels of the essential amino acids plus cystine and tyrosine were lower in the mixture than in meal alone. The supplementary effect may possibly be due to changes in the aminoacid ratio or balance.

3. Only tryptophan improved growth and viability when free amino acids were added singly to the solubles. Simultaneous supply of all 10 essential amino acids elevated growth to about 80% of that on meal alone. A combination of tryptophan, isoleucine, histidine and phenylalanine appeared nearly as effective as the 10. Depressant effects of free amino acids at the low levels used were also met with. The chick results followed closely the predictions made from the results of microbiological assays of the amino-acid composition of the solubles, and these were in conformity with the composition of the ‘ideal’ amino-acid mixture for chicks proposed by Fisher & Johnson (1957).

4. The small weight gains of the chicks on solubles alone consisted largely of water rather than true tissue. Appetite appeared to be governed by the balance of amino acids, this appearing to be more important than the absolute levels fed. This applied to diets with heated meal as well as the solubles.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , October 1958 , pp. 164 - 176
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1958

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Almquist, H. J., Mecchi, E. & Kratzer, F. H. (1941). J. Biol. Chem. 141, 365.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Anonymous (1951). Meld.fra S.S.F. p. 48.Google Scholar
Barnes, B. H., Maach, J. E., Knights, M. J. & Burr, G. O. (1945). Cereal Chem. 22, 273.Google Scholar
Bender, A. E. & Haizelden, S. (1957). Brit. J. Nutr. 11, 42.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Boge, G. (1957). Private communication.Google Scholar
Briggs, G. M., Mills, B. C., Elvehjem, C. A. & Hart, E. B. (1942). J. Biol. Chem. 144, 47.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Carpenter, K. J. (1954). Proc. Nutr. Soc. 13, 23.Google Scholar
Carpenter, K. J., Ellinger, G. M., Munro, M. I. & Rolfe, E. J. (1957). Brit. J. Nutr. 11, 162.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Desphande, P. D., Harper, A. E. & Elvehjem, C. A. (1957). J. Nutr. 62, 503.Google Scholar
Desphande, P. D., Harper, A. E., Quiros-Perez, F. & Elvehjem, C. A. (1955). J. Nutr. 57, 415.Google Scholar
Eriksen, L. (1957). Private communication.Google Scholar
Fisher, H. & Johnson, D. (1957). Poult. Sci. 36, 444.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fisher, H., Johnson, D. & Leveille, G. A. (1957). J. Nutr. 62, 349.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fisher, H., Salander, R. C. & Taylor, M. W. (1956). J. Nutr. 58, 459.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gessert, C. F. & Phillips, P. H. (1956). J. Nutr. 58, 423.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Griminger, P., Scott, H. M. & Forbes, R. M. (1956). J. Nutr. 59, 67.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Griminger, P., Scott, H. M. & Forbes, R. M. (1957). J. Nutr. 62, 61.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Harper, A. E. (1956). Nutr. Rev. 14, 225.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Laksesvela, B. (1954). Section Papers. 10th World's Poultry Congr., Edinburgh, p. 154.Google Scholar
Lang, K. (1957). Addendum to Abstracts of Papers, 4th Int. Congr. Nutr., Paris.Google Scholar
Miller, D. S. (1956). J. Sci. Fd Agric. 7, 337.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Minsaas, J. (1953). Meld.fra S.S.F. p. 42.Google Scholar
National Research Council (1954). Nutritional Requirements for Poultry. Washington, U.S.A.Google Scholar
Rosenberg, H. R. & Culik, R. (1957). J. Nutr. 63, 477.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sauberlich, H. E. (1956). J. Nutr. 59, 353.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Williams, M. A. & Grau, C. R. (1956). J. Nutr. 59, 243.CrossRefGoogle Scholar