Passion fruit seed meal at growing and finishing pig (30-90 kg) feeding

Abstract

The passion fruit seed is a byproduct of the extraction of the passion fruit pulp and can be used for feeding to pigs. Two experiments were conducted (digestibility and performance) to evaluate the use of the passion fruit seed meal in feed for growing and finishing pigs. A digestibility trial was conducted with growing and finishing pigs, in which the passion fruit seed meal (PSM) replaced the reference diet (0% PSM) in levels of 4, 8, 12 and 16%. Thirty barrows were used with average weight of 36.85±4.19. The PSF showed DE and ME of 3.244 and 3.223 Mcal/kg, respectively. In the performance trial, were used 150 pigs, which 75 in the growing phase and 75 pigs in the finishing, with initial body weight of 30.63±1.49 and final of 60.38±4.75 kg and 60.40±1.50 and 90.02±4.84 kg, respectively. Five diets were used, with four inclusion levels of PSM (4, 8, 12 e 16%) and one control diet (0% of PSM). The PSM levels did not influence (P>0.05) the performance variables. In the growing pigs, serum levels of cholesterol increased linearly with (P<0.05) inclusion levels of PSM. Quantitative of carcass traits and meat quality were not affected (P>0.05) by increasing levels of PSM in the diets. We conclude that the PSM can be used up to 16% in growing and finishing pigs diets.Index terms: Co-product, digestibility, nutritional value, carcass. RESUMOA semente do maracujá é um subproduto da extração da polpa do maracujá, podendo ser utilizado na alimentação dos suínos. Foram conduzidos dois experimentos (digestibilidade e desempenho), objetivando avaliar a utilização do farelo da semente de maracujá na alimentação de suínos em crescimento e terminação. Inicialmente foi realizado um ensaio de digestibilidade com suínos em crescimento e terminação, em que o farelo da semente de maracujá (FSM)

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“…However, when passion fruit seed was used in the diet of laying hens, there was no difference in egg production and feed conversion, but the specific gravity of eggs increased with the concentration of seeds, while total cholesterol and blood triglycerides decreased linearly, and also a decrease in the yolk lipid oxidation was evidenced (Zanetti et al., ). The addition of passion fruit byproducts in elephants silage (Bonfá et al., ; Cardoso de Azevedo et al., ) increased the dry matter and favored the fermentative, microbiological, and bromatological silage processes, while in pig feeding, seed meal showed to increase the serum levels of cholesterol (Perondi et al., ). Similarly, the mixture between grass and passion fruit peel could be an efficient and environmental acceptable way to preserve feeds in order to sustain the productivity of the herds during the dry season (Espinoza et al., ).…”