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Enhancing the Nutritive Value of Corn Whole Stillage for Pigs via Pretreatment and Predigestion

Enhancing the Nutritive Value of Corn Whole Stillage for Pigs via Pretreatment and Predigestion

Casey A Zangaro, Robert Patterson, William R Gibbons, Tofuko A Woyengo

J Agric Food Chem. 2018 Sep 12;66(36):9409-9417.

PMID: 30092630

Abstract:

Corn DDGS is poorly digested by pigs. Pretreatment or predigestion of whole stillage (WS; slurry material from which DDGS is derived) can potentially improve corn DDGS digestibility. Thus, a study was conducted to determine the effects of pretreating WS with heat (160 °C and 70 psi for 20 min) alone or in combination with citric acid (10 g/L; CA), sulfuric acid (90 mM; H2SO4), or ammonia (1%), without or with subsequent multienzymatic hydrolysis for 24 h, on porcine digestibility. Dried untreated, heat-pretreated, CA-pretreated, H2SO4-pretreated, and ammonia-pretreated WS contained 23, 21, 12 19, and 18% total nonstarch polysaccharides, respectively. Pretreatment increased in vitro digestibility of dry matter of WS by ∼11 (CA) to ∼15% units (ammonia). Multienzyme hydrolysis increased in vitro digestibility of dry matter of WS by ∼6 (ammonia-treated WS) to ∼18% units (untreated WS). Thus, pretreatment or predigestion can improve the digestibility of WS and hence the resulting DDGS.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
IAR421100	Ammonia - WS			Price

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