Milk quality of ruminants fed with tannin-based diets
Ana Jaqueline Cavalcante MUNIZ,
Severino GONZAGA NETO,
Beatriz Dantas OLIVEIRA
et al.
Abstract:Tannins are found in various feeds and can produce numerous benefits to ruminants, such as preventing bloat, favoring a better use of dietary protein, increasing microbial protein synthesis, according to its concentration, molecular weight and structure. The tannins affect the digestibility of the protein, because they form complexes with dietary proteins, improving the duodenal flow of proteins, of some essential amino acids and of unsaturated fatty acids, modifying the profile of two fatty acids of meat and … Show more
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