THE EFFECT OF FORTIFICATION OF PROCESSED SOYA FLOUR WITH dl-METHIONINE HYDROXY ANALOGUE OR dl-METHIONINE ON THE DIGESTIBILITY, BIOLOGICAL VALUE, AND NET PROTEIN UTILIZATION OF THE PROTEINS AS STUDIED IN CHILDREN

1964 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. N. Parthasarathy ◽  
T. R. Doraiswamy ◽  
Myna Panemangalore ◽  
M. Narayana Rao ◽  
B. S. Chandrasekhar ◽  
...  

The true digestibility coefficient, biological value, and net available protein of diets based on processed soya flour supplemented with dl-methionine hydroxy analogue (MHA) or dl-methionine (at a level of 1.2 g/16 g N) have been determined in children aged 8–9 years. The mean daily intake of protein by the children on the different diets was maintained at a level of about 1.2 g/kg body weight. Supplementation of soya flour with dl-methionine brought about a marked increase in the biological value and net protein utilization of the proteins. MHA was, however, slightly less effective than dl-methionine in this respect. The biological value and net protein utilization of the different proteins were as follows: soya flour, 63.5 and 53.3; soya flour + MHA, 71.5 and 61.4; soya flour + methionine, 74.9 and 64.7; and skim milk powder, 82.6 and 72.0.

1964 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. N. Parthasarathy ◽  
Kantha Joseph ◽  
V. A. Daniel ◽  
T. R. Doraiswamy ◽  
A. N. Sankaran ◽  
...  

The effect of supplementing a rice diet providing about 1.3–1.4 g protein per kg body weight with lysine, methionine, and threonine individually or together on true digestibility coefficient (DC), biological value (BV), and net protein utilization (NPU) of the proteins has been studied in girls aged 8–9 years. The retention of nitrogen on the rice diet was very low (9.5% of intake in the first series and 8.5% in the second series). The BV and NPU of the proteins of rice diet were 64.1 and 52.9 in the first series and 66.6 and 54.9 in the second series. Supplementation of the rice diet with lysine or methionine or lysine + methionine brought about a significant improvement in N retention (12.6, 12.0, 13.5% of intake) and in the BV (68.3, 66.3, 69.3) and NPU (54.8, 55.7, 55.8). When the rice diet was supplemented with lysine and threonine, a highly significant improvement in the N retention (18.9% of intake) and in the BV (77.4) and NPU (63.4) was observed. Addition of methionine to rice diet containing lysine and threonine resulted in a further improvement in N retention, BV, and NPU of the diets. The net available protein (g/kg body weight) from the different diets were as follows: rice diet, 0.71; rice diet + lysine, 0.76; rice diet + methionine, 0.74; rice diet + lysine + methionine, 0.77; rice diet + lysine + threonine, 0.85; rice diet + lysine + threonine + methionine, 0.91; and skim milk powder diet, 0.96–0.98.


1964 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 641-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myna Panemangalore ◽  
H. N. Parthasarathy ◽  
Kantha Joseph ◽  
A. N. Sankaran ◽  
M. Narayana Rao ◽  
...  

The effect of supplementing a poor rice diet commonly used in India with methionine-fortified soya flour or skim milk powder was studied in seven girls aged 8–9 years, using as criteria: the retention of nitrogen, digestibility coefficient, biological value, and net protein utilization of the proteins. The retention of nitrogen on the rice diet was very low (20.3 mg/kg day). Supplementation of the rice diet with soya flour, methionine-fortified soya flour or skim milk powder, so as to provide about 1 g/kg extra protein, made up the protein deficiency in the rice diet and resulted in a significant increase in nitrogen retention (95.6, 112.1, and 113.6 mg/kg day). The retention of nitrogen on the rice diet supplemented with methionine-fortified soya flour (112.1 mg/kg day) or skim milk powder (113.6 mg/kg day) was nearly the same and significantly higher than that (95.6 mg/kg day) observed with a diet supplemented with soya flour. The biological value and net protein utilization of the mixed proteins of rice – skim milk powder diet and rice–methionine-fortified soya flour diet (62.4 and 62.2 and 53.3 and 54.0 respectively) were nearly the same and significantly higher than those (58.3 and 49.9) of rice – soya flour diet. The results show that methionine-fortified soya flour is almost as good as skim milk powder and significantly superior to soya flour as a protein supplement to rice diet.


1965 ◽  
Vol 43 (11) ◽  
pp. 1879-1883 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Krishnaswamy ◽  
S. B. Kadkol ◽  
G. D. Revankar

Ensiled fish was prepared from a local variety of freshwater fish (Barbus carnaticus) by fermentation with a pure culture of Streptococcus lactis, commercial lactose being used as a source of fermentable carbohydrate. The fermented material (pH 4.7) was roller dried. The finished product was cream colored and had a somewhat aromatic odor. It had a protein content of about 72%. Total lysine, available lysine, methionine, cystine, and tryptophan of the ensiled fish (expressed as g/16 g N) were 10.1, 8.1, 3.6, 1.1, and 1.2%, respectively. Hygienically, the product, being free from coliforms, enterococci, Salmonella, coagulase-positive staphylococci, and pathogenic anaerobes, was satisfactory. The biological value of the product as determined by protein efficiency ratio (3.3), net protein utilization (82.3%), and net protein ratio (4.2) was not significantly different from that of skim milk powder, which has a protein efficiency ratio of 3.2, net protein utilization of 82.8%, and net protein ratio of 4.9.


1946 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen M. Henry ◽  
S. J. Rowland

1. A sample of roller-dried skim-milk powder, found to possess the very low biological value of 55.2, supplemented slightly but definitely the proteins of national wheatmeal bread when it supplied 23% of the total nitrogen. No such effect was observed with another sample of milk with a biological value of 71.1 when it supplied 17 % of the total nitrogen, or with a further sample of milk with a biological value of 81.3 when added to bread at a 6 % level supplying about 15 % of the total nitrogen. On the first two occasions the biological value for two different samples of national wheatmeal bread was 48.9 and 55.0 respectively for young rats; for the same rats when mature the values were 55.8 and 64.6. No differences attributable to age were found with milk. Baking did not affect the biological value of the proteins of the milk added to the flour.2. The biological value of a sample of spray.dried skim milk declined from a value of 88.5, observed 18 months after manufacture, to 71.1 some 36 months later. The true digestibility remained unchanged.3. Commercial samples of spray.dried and roller.dried skim milk of good quality, and of over.neutralized and overheated roller.dried skim milk, yielded biological values of 78.6, 80.9, 78.2 and 76.2 respectively and true digestibilities of 90.5, 90.1, 89.4 and 88.8 respectively.


1983 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. S. Thickett ◽  
N. H. Cuthbert ◽  
T. D. A. Brigstocke ◽  
M. A. Lindeman ◽  
P. N. Wilson

ABSTRACTResults are presented from six trials dealing with aspects of management on the cold ad libitum system of calf rearing using an acidified milk replacer containing over 600 g skim milk powder per kg.Thirty-six calves were housed in pens of six for each trial and were fed through a teat and pipeline from a storage barrel. Acidified milk replacer, pH 5·6, was mixed cold at 125 g/1 and made available ad libitum to 3 weeks. A rationed allowance was given daily, on a reducing scale, over the following 2 weeks with weaning completed at 35 days. A pelleted dry food containing 180 g crude protein per kg, together with water in buckets and barley straw in racks, was available ad libitum throughout. Each trial lasted 8 weeks. Results for the mean of the six cold ad libitum trials involving 216 calves were compared with the mean results of 10 conventional bucket-fed trials carried out separately at the same unit, involving 912 calves. All calves were purchased British Friesian male (bull) calves.Calves on the ad libitum system showed improved live-weight gains of 9·4 kg at 3 weeks, 8·8 kg at 5 weeks and 7·5 kg at 8 weeks, compared with the conventional system. The consumption of milk replacer powder was higher in ad libitum trials at 29·4 kg cf. 12·5 kg by bucket but intake of pelleted dry feed was lower on the ad libitum system at 50·7 kg cf. 71·3 kg to 8 weeks. Calf appearance scores were significantly improved on the ad libitum system which gave the main improvement in performance in the first 3 weeks.


1974 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 368-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Ihnat

Abstract A fluorometric method using 2,3-diaminonaphthalene for estimating selenium has been evaluated with regard to its applicability to food samples. Charring of the sample during digestion appeared to result in losses of native and added selenium from some samples, so a modified wet digestion procedure was introduced. Digestion first in nitric acid followed by a mixture of nitric-perchloric-sulfuric acids substantially reduced the incidence of sample charring for a variety of foods. The mean apparent recovery of selenium added as selenite or selenate at 100 and 500 ng levels to 0.1 and 1.0 g corn cereal, skim milk powder, and meat and 0.1 g fish was 101.0%; the actual recovery of the same levels of selenium from standard solutions was 96.6%. For a variety of samples containing 5—750 ng native or added selenium, the standard deviation as 4.7 + 1.95 X 10-2W ng, where W = ng selenium in the sample taken for analysis. The relative standard deviation (RSD) as a function of selenium weight (ng) was 50% (10), 6.7% (100), 4.3% (200), 3.1% (400), 2.7% (600), and 2.5% (800). The detection limit (weight of selenium at which RSD = 50%) was 10 ng at a mean blank level of 25 ng.


1997 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
KARIN WIGERTZ ◽  
ULLA K. SVENSSON ◽  
MARGARETHA JÄGERSTAD

Recent findings suggest a protective role for folates in the reduction of neural tube defects and possibly also coronary heart disease and cancer. Consequently, an increase in the daily intake of folates is warranted, which emphasizes the need for quantitative as well as qualitative measurements of dietary folates. Milk plays an important part in the food chain in many Western countries today. Several studies suggest that folate-binding proteins might have an impact on folate absorption and therefore their concentrations are also important. The mean concentration of the predominant form of folate, 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5-CH3THF), was determined using HPLC in thirteen selected dairy products; skim milk powder, two pasteurized milks, UHT milk, two fermented milks, three whey products and four different cheeses. All results were corrected for recovery by spiking the samples with 5-CH3THF. Effects of storage of dairy products on 5-CH3THF concentrations were also investigated; generally small and insignificant fluctuations were found, except for hard cheese, in which 5-CH3THF decreased significantly. There was a significant seasonal variation in the folate concentration of pasteurized milk which peaked in the summer months. The concentrations of folate-binding protein in skim milk powder and pasteurized milk analysed using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay were similar. UHT milk and fermented milk, both of which are processed at temperatures >90°C, contained significantly lower concentrations of folate-binding protein.


1985 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 727-739 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. O. Eggum ◽  
R. M. Beames ◽  
K. E. Bach Knudsen

1. The present work with growing rats was undertaken to study the effect of protein quality, gastrointestinal microbial activity and the level of nitrogen intake on protein utilization and energy digestibiiity. The experiment involved a total of thirty-six dietary treatments in a 9 x 4 factorial design, with five rats per treatment. The thirty-six diets resulted from nine protein sources. Each diet was composed of a basal N-free mixture plus minerals and vitamins, with N sources added at the expense of the N-free mixture to provide 15.0 gN/kg dry matter (DM) in the first three protein-addition treatments and 30.0 gN/kg DM in the fourth protein-addition treatment. The nine protein sources were soya-bean meal, casein, wheat gluten, skim-milk powder, meat-and-bone meal, wheat bran, barley, wheat and cooked brown beans (Phaseolus vulgaris). The four formulations for each protein source incorporated the protein unsupplemented at 15.0 gN/kg DM, unsupplemented at 30.0 gN/kg DM, or supplemented at 15.0 gN/kg DM with the estimated first-limiting amino acid or the antibiotic Nebacitin.2. With all protein sources, the inclusion of the first-limiting amino acid had no effect on either protein or energy digestibility.3. The microbial activity in the digestive tract affected protein utilization and energy digestibility to a different degree depending primarily on the level and type of dietary fibre. True protein digestibility (TD) of skim-milk powder and brown beans, both rich in easily-fermentable energy, increased from 0.959 to 1.000 and from 0.680 to 0.777 respectively by the addition of Nebacitin. TD of the other protein sources was only marginally affected by the antibiotic treatment. Only with brown beans was the biological value (BV) markedly affected by Nebacitin with an increase from 0.482 to 0.557 by the treatment. Energy digestibility was significantly lower in rats given antibiotic with soya-bean meal, wheat bran, barley, wheat and brown beans.4. The effect of level of N intake on protein utilization was dependent on both protein quality and the fibre concentration of the diet. Protein sources with high BV were more affected than proteins of lower BV. It was concluded that TD is not always independent of dietary protein concentration.


1975 ◽  
Vol 15 (73) ◽  
pp. 207 ◽  
Author(s):  
MR Taverner ◽  
R Campbell

The growth of piglets reared individually in pens over the age interval three to eight weeks was compared for isocaloric and isonitrogenous diets in which part or all of the skim milk powder component of the diet was replaced by dried egg meal. Other components common to all diets included wheat, soyabean meal and fish meal. The dried egg meal and skim milk powder in total comprised 55 per cent of the protein concentrate in each diet. The mean growth rates and feed conversion ratios of 360 g day-1 and 2.14 kg feed kg-1 in liveweight gain, respectively, did not differ significantly for any diet. In a further experiment with older pigs the digestible energy content of dried egg meal and skim milk powder was shown to be 6127 and 3907 kcal kg-1 of dry feed respectively.


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