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The effect of soluble non-starch polysaccharides in piglet diets on whole digesta viscosity measurements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2017

E. Lee ,
F.J. Doucet ,
S.E. Hill  and
J. Wiseman
E. Lee
Affiliation:
The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
F.J. Doucet
Affiliation:
Council for Geoscience, Pretoria, South Africa
S.E. Hill*
Affiliation:
The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
J. Wiseman
Affiliation:
The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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The presence of soluble non-starch polysaccharides (SNSP) in non-ruminant diets can have a negative effect on digestibility due to the increase in digesta viscosity they invariably promote. Viscosity measurements studies have relied on supernatant viscosity following the removal of solid particles from the digesta via centrifugation. However, Takahashi and Sakata (2004) observed that the removal of solid particles from caecal contents changes the basic rheological characteristics of digesta from a non-Newtonian fluid to a Newtonian fluid. The aim of the current study was to investigate the effect of a SNSP source in piglet diets on whole digesta viscosity measurements as determined through a novel protocol developed at Nottingham.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2008 , 2008 , pp. 234
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2008

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Lee, E., Doucet, F.J., Hill, S.E. and Wiseman, J. 2007. Poster presentation at ‘Paradigms in Pig Science’, University of Nottingham, July 2007.Google Scholar
Takahashi, T., Sakata, T. 2004. Journal of Nutrition 20, 377–382.Google Scholar