“…Such studies first examined temperate forage legumes fed through grazing, as hay, silage or pellets. Examples are sainfoin (Hoste et al, 2016;Legendre et al, 2018;Mueller-Harvey et al, 2019), sericea lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata) (Burke et al, 2012a,b;Mechineni et al, 2014;Kommuru et al, 2014Kommuru et al, , 2015, and sulla (Hedysarum coronarium) (Niezen et al, 1995(Niezen et al, , 2002. More recently, there has been also a growing interest in tannin-containing by-products from the food industry as illustrated by studies with hazelnut peels (Corylus avellana fruits) (Desrues et al, 2012;, carob pods (Manolaraki et al, 2010;Arroyo-Lopez et al, 2014) and browse plants such as Pistacia lentiscus (Landau et al, 2010;Manolaraki et al, 2010), Quercus coccifera (Manolaraki et al, 2010) and Salix spp (Mupeyo et al, 2011).…”