“…High-quality proteins like glutamic acid have been found to aid small intestinal starch digestion, and could be a beneficial inclusion in corn-based diets that would provide opportunity to increase intramuscular fat deposition ( Brake & Swanson, 2018 ; Moriel, 2018 ). Van der Wal, Zeltwanger and DiCostanzo, (2019) found that including a molasses-based urea supplement in backgrounding diets increased DMI but had no effect on ADG, resulting in decreased FCE. Therefore, sugar supplementation may replace corn in pasture based backgrounding to increase DMI of long fibre roughage.…”