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The optimum dietary amino acid pattern for growing pigs

1. Experiments by amino acid deletion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

T. C. Wang  and
M. F. Fuller
T. C. Wang
Affiliation:
Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB2 9SB
M. F. Fuller
Affiliation:
Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB2 9SB
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A series of four nitrogen-balance experiments was carried out with growing pigs to determine the optimum balance amongst the amino acids in the diet. The reduction in N retention when 20 % of a single amino acid was removed from the diet was used to calculate a dietary amino acid pattern in which each amino acid would he equally limiting. A mixture of amino acids simulating the amino acid pattern of casein was used with the same efficiency as casein. From two successive deletion experiments an optimum balance amongst the essential amino acids was derived. Expressed relative to lysine = 100 this had threonine 72, valine 75, methionine + cystine 63, isoleucine 60, leucine 110, phenylalanine + tryosine 120, tryptophan 18. No estimate was made for histidine. Essential amino acids in this pattern were mixed with non-essential amino acids in ratios of 36:64 up to 57:43. The highest efficiency of N retention was achieved with diets having a ratio of at least 45:55. This included (g/16 g N) lysine 6 5, threonine 4.7, valine 4 9, methionine + cystine 4.1, isoleucine 3 9, leucine 7.2, phenylalanine + tyrosine 7.8, tryptophan 12. The N of diets with this amino acid pattern was utilized significantly better than when the pattern proposed by the Agricultural Research Council (1981) was used. The flow of amino acids past the terminal ileum of pigs given the semi-synthetic diet with this amino acid pattern was no greater than that observed with protein-free diets. The proposed pattern thus describes the intrinsic requirements of the growing pig for absorbed amino acids.

Keywords

Amino acidsProtein qualityPig
Type
Research Article
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , July 1989 , pp. 77 - 89
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1989

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