Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) is one of the most studied vegetables, due to its use as sources of edible oil and protein for human and animal feeding. The presence of trypsin inhibitors in soy grain restrict its utilization and requires heating to improve the nutritional quality. However, excessive heating may reduce the protein quality. Soybean cultivar BR-36 containing normal content of trypsin inhibitors and soybean cultivars (BRM 95 5297 and BRM 95 5262) with low content of trypsin inhibitors […]

It was evaluated the caffeine contents of caffeine, tannins, lignin and silica in the hull and pulp of coffee of cultivars Catuaí, Rubi, Mundo Novo. Pulp was obtained by moist pulping in a mechanical pulper and dried in the sun adjusted to 13% moisture. Materials were stored in raffia bag in environment free of moisture and ventilated with samplings every 90 days. The quadratic effect shown increased caffeine content along 360 day storage, this increase was of 11,7% along 12 […]

A trial was conducted to evaluate the influence of antinutritional factors in some feedstuffs on broiler chick’s performance and intestinal epithelium. A total of 480 one-day old broiler chicks were allotted to a completely randomized experimental design with four treatments (A= corn and soybean meal based control diet; B = diet containing Leucaena leucocephala – 6% [LL]; C = diet containing Leucaena cunningan – 6% [LC] and D = diet containing Pigeous bean – Cajanus cajan – 20% [CC]), four […]