Nutritional effect of chlorogenic acid fed to growing broiler chicks

✍ Scribed by Treviño, Jesús; Rebolé, Almudena; Rodríguez, María Luisa; Ortiz, Luis T; Centeno, Carmen; Alzueta, Carmen

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 169 KB
• Volume: 76
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-5142
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0010(199802)76:2<156::aid-jsfa912>3.0.co;2-m

✦ Synopsis

Experimental puriÐed diets with supplemental chlorogenic acid (0, 2, 4 and 6 g kg~1) were given to 25-day-old chicks for a period of 3 days ; these levels of chlorogenic acid were approximately similar to those of diets containing 0, 100, 200 and 300 g kg~1 ground sunÑower seed. The excreta were collected quantitatively, and at the end of the experimental period the chicks were killed and the ileal digesta collected. No signiÐcant di †erences in food intake, crude protein, crude fat and starch digestibilities were found among chick groups. The presence of chlorogenic acid in the diet signiÐcantly a †ected neither the metabolisable energy value nor the individual ileal amino acid digestibility. These results indicate that dietary chlorogenic acid at a lower concentration than 6 g kg~1 did not measurably a †ect the nutritional quality of diet.