TY  - JA
AU  - Price,M.L.
AU  - Butler,L.G.
AU  - Rogler,J.C.
AU  - Featherston,W.R.
TI  - Overcoming the nutritionally harmful effects of tannin in sorghum grain by treatment with inexpensive chemicals
SN  - 0021-8561
PY  - 1979///
CY  - United States of America
PB  - American Chemical Society
KW  - Nutrition
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Improvement
KW  - Tannins
KW  - Sorghum
KW  - Grain
KW  - Chemicals
KW  - Ammonia
N1  - Peer review
N2  - Treatment of high-tannin sorghum grain with moist, alkaline conditions was shown to substantially reduce the amount of tannin as measured by three chemical assays. Chicks fed a high-tannin grain (Savannah III), treated as the whole grain with dilute ammonium hydroxide for 30 days, showed 3-week weight gains and feed efficiencies which were statistically equivalent to those of chicks fed an untreated low-tannin control (RS-610). A shorter treatment of a ground high-tannin grain (BR-54) with a 0.5 M aqueous solution of K2CO3 resulted in a comparable improvement in weight gains and a substantial improvement in feed efficiencies. Treatment of the same grain with moisture and CaO gave an improvement of a lesser magnitude. Increases in available protein after treatments did not appear sufficient to account for the nutritional improvements
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1021/jf60222a052
T2  - Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
ER  -