{"id":2095,"date":"2015-04-16T13:17:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T13:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2023-06-22T07:46:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T12:46:28","slug":"why-amino-acid-digestibility-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instapro.spinuhost.com\/en\/blog\/nutritionandtechnologies\/why-amino-acid-digestibility-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Amino Acid Digestibility Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amino acid digestibility has been a popular topic in my past <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com\/2014\/05\/06\/quality-ingredients-a-consistent-source-of-highly-digestible-nutrients\/\">blogs<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zootecnicainternational.com\/article-archive\/nutrition\/283-standardised-ileal-digestibility-proposal-for-a-new-system-to-describe-amino-acid-digestibility-of-feed-ingredients-for-poultry.html\">trade journals<\/a>\u00a0as an important measure of protein quality and that higher digestibility is better.\u00a0 However, what do these values mean and how do differences in digestibility matter in practical situations?<\/p>\n<p>Production animals consume <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Protein\">proteins<\/a> in their diet every day. The protein is typically supplied by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Food_grain\">grains<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vegetable_oil\">oilseeds<\/a>, but animal ingredients can also be used.\u00a0 Protein consists of long chain \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amino_acid\">amino acids<\/a>, the building blocks of all proteins; including those in meat, milk, eggs and animal fiber, like wool.\u00a0 Animals must break down the intact proteins from the diet, absorb amino acids across the intestinal wall into circulation (blood) and then use these building blocks to construct protein at the various tissues.\u00a0 If the proper amount and balance of these building blocks are not present, then protein synthesis will not be maximized and animal performance, as measured by body weight gain, will be reduced.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge arises when less than 100% of the amino acids in feed ingredients are available for productive purposes.\u00a0 This is what digestibility attempts to do \u2013 estimate the percentage of each amino acid available for protein building.\u00a0 Various animal models have been developed to measure digestibility (for example, see <a href=\"http:\/\/cvi.asm.org\/content\/16\/4\/453\/F1.expansion.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Adding further complexity, digestibility varies based on the ingredient in question, field conditions, composition of other nutrients in the ingredient and diet, animal age, genetics and production level;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com\/2015\/03\/26\/producing-animal-proteins-in-hot-climates\/\">climate<\/a>\u00a0and ingredient processing conditions.<\/p>\n<p>I have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com\/\">blogged<\/a> in the past about how processing conditions with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com\">our<\/a> equipment results in higher quality soy ingredients (see <a 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width=\"269\">Corn<\/td>\n<td width=\"269\">44 %<\/td>\n<td width=\"269\">52 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"269\">Solvent soybean meal (SBM)<\/td>\n<td width=\"269\">46 %<\/td>\n<td width=\"269\">0 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"269\">Veg oil<\/td>\n<td width=\"269\">6 %<\/td>\n<td width=\"269\">0 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"269\">ExPress \u00ae soy meal<\/td>\n<td width=\"269\">0 %<\/td>\n<td width=\"269\">44 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"269\">Dicalcium phosphate<\/td>\n<td width=\"269\">1.9 %<\/td>\n<td width=\"269\">1.9 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"269\">Limestone<\/td>\n<td width=\"269\">1.4 %<\/td>\n<td width=\"269\">1.4 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"269\">Salt<\/td>\n<td width=\"269\">0.5 %<\/td>\n<td width=\"269\">0.5 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"269\">DL-methionine<\/td>\n<td width=\"269\">0 %<\/td>\n<td width=\"269\">0 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"269\">L-lysine<\/td>\n<td width=\"269\">0 %<\/td>\n<td width=\"269\">0 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acids (DL-methionine and L-lysine were set to 0) in the complete diet, I achieved higher digestibility levels of methionine (Met) and methionine plus cysteine (M + C) when ExPress \u00ae soy meal was used versus commodity, solvent-extracted soybean meal.\u00a0 The digestible lysine levels were kept equal.<\/p>\n<p>This is because ExPress \u00ae soy meal has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com\/2014\/05\/06\/quality-ingredients-a-consistent-source-of-highly-digestible-nutrients\/\">higher digestible amino acids<\/a> than solvent-extracted soybean meal.\u00a0 In this example, less meal was required when it is was processed one way versus the other.\u00a0 Therefore, we can conclude that ingredients with higher-digestible amino acids are higher quality and support equal or greater performance at lower amounts in the diet.\u00a0 Digestibility, therefore, matters tremendously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amino acid digestibility has been a popular topic in my past blogs and trade journals\u00a0as an important measure of protein quality and that higher digestibility is better.\u00a0 However, what do these values mean and how do differences in digestibility matter in practical situations? Production animals consume proteins in their diet every day. 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