The use of chestnuts (Castanea sativa Mill.) as a source of resistant starch in the diet of the weaned piglet

tTwenty-four piglets, with a mean weight of 6.11 kg, were allocated to three experimentaldiets (8 piglets per diet). The starch content of the experimental diets was 39% consistingeither of 100% wheat starch (CD), 50% wheat starch and 50% chestnut starch (CN50) or 100%chestnut starch (CN100). The pi...

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Main Author: Ribeiro, R.S. (author)
Other Authors: Pinho, M. (author), Falcão-Cunha, L. (author), Freire, J.P.B. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/11477
Country:Portugal
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