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. 2024 Feb 14;14(4):619. doi: 10.3390/ani14040619

Table 25.

The concentration of nutrients and selected antinutritional factors (g/kg, dry matter basis unless otherwise specified) of raw and extruded grain legumes.

Nutrient/ANF Chickpeas 1,* Sweet Lupins 2 White Lupins 3 Field Peas 4 Faba Beans 5,*
Raw Ext. Raw Ext. Raw Ext. Raw Ext. Raw Ext.
Dry matter 866 932 - - - - - - 864 841–861
Crude protein 200 208 279 311 369 377 230 229 239 232–236
Crude fat 135 68 59 60 130 136 25 26 - -
Crude fibre 64 65 173 161 - - - - - -
Ash 35 36 33 34 37 36 31 31 37 37–38
ADF - - 249 229 - - - - 117 110–120
NDF - - 271 245 - - - - 156 127–139
NSPs - - - - - - - - - -
Total - - - - 371 379 200 194 - -
Soluble - - - - 41 74 23 28 - -
Insoluble - - - - 330 305 177 166 - -
Starch - - - - nd nd 465 461 367 354–368
Resistant starch - - - - - - - - 192 10–15
AME (MJ/kg DM) 10.8 11.5 8.6 7.5 9.9 7.8 11.7 11.1 7.9± 9.0–10.9 ±
Amino acids
Arginine 13 27 32 36 32 - - 24 22–23
Histidine 2.0 1.9 7.6 8.3 9.1 8.6 - - 6.8 6.3–6.8
Lysine 15 15 12 13 19 17 - - 18 17–18
Phenylalanine 13 14 10 11 18 17 - - 10 9.2–10
Leucine 19 19 18 19 30 32 - - 19 17–19
Isoleucine 9.6 9.4 10 12 16 15 - - 10 9.6–10
Valine 12 11 11 11 16 17 - - 11 10–11
Methionine 2.8 2.5 1.5 1.6 3.8 3.7 - - 0.5 0.4–0.7
Threonine 9.3 94 9.2 10 15 15 - - 9.0 8.5–9.3
Tryptophan - - 2.3 2.5 - - - - - -
Antinutritional factors
TIA (mg/g) - - - - 1.1 0.3 0.23 0.19 1.04 0.76–0.80
Phytic acid (g/kg) - - - - - - - - 0.47 # 0.42–0.43 #
Tannins (g/kg) - - - - - - - - - -

1 Variety Kabuli [130]; 2 cv. Wonga [14]; 3 cv. Kiev mutant [74]; 4 [89]; 5 cv. Amulet [107]. Abbreviations: ANF—antinutritional factors; Ext.—extruded; ADF—acid detergent f ibre; NDF—neutral detergent fibre; NSPs—non-starch polysaccharides; AME- apparent metabolisable energy; TIA—trypsin inhibitor activity. * As-fed basis; ± nitrogen-corrected AME; # phytate phosphorous.