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Hydrolysable tannin-based diet rich in gallotannins has a minimal impact on pig performance but significantly reduces salivary and bulbourethral gland size.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Sept 2017
Bee G, Silacci P, Ampuero-Kragten S, Čandek-Potokar M, Wealleans A L, Litten-Brown J, Salminen J-P, Mueller-Harvey I
Abstract excerpt
Tannins have long been considered 'anti-nutritional' factors in monogastric nutrition, shown to reduce feed intake and palatability. However, recent studies revealed that compared with condensed tannins, hydrolysable tannins (HT) appear to have far less impact on growth performance, but may be inhibitory to the total activity of caecal bacteria. This in turn could reduce microbial synthesis of skatole and indole...
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