Document Type
Report
Report Number
2015-6
Publication Date
2015
Summary
Improving performance and efficiency among cattle fed corn-based diets could have large benefit to cattle production in the United States. Starch escaping ruminal fermentation is not efficiently digested in the small intestine; however, postruminal flows of casein (i.e., milk protein) or glutamate (an amino acid or building block of protein) increase small intestinal starch digestion in cattle. The objective of this study was to determine responses of small intestinal starch digestion in cattle to increasing amounts of postruminal glutamate. Increasing amounts of duodenal glutamate linearly increased small intestinal and postruminal starch digestion. These data indicate that postruminal glutamate can provide benefit to cattle fed corn-based diets.
Number of Pages
5
Format
application/pdf
Language
en
Publisher
South Dakota State University
Rights
Copyright © 2015 South Dakota State University
Recommended Citation
Blom, E.J.; Brake, D.W.; and Anderson, D.E., "Postruminal Flow of Glutamate Linearly Increases
Small Intestinal Starch Digestion in Cattle" (2015). South Dakota Beef Report, 2015. 7.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/sd_beefreport_2015/7