Sodium metabisulphite enhances energy utilisation in broiler chickens offered sorghum-based diets with five different grain varieties
Published:March 29, 2017
Summary
1. Introduction Sorghum is a problematic feed grain for chicken-meat production which has been considered in two reviews (Selle et al., 2010; Liu et al., 2015). A distinctive feature of sorghum is kafirin, the dominant protein fraction. Kafirin classically makes up 55% of sorghum protein and is present as discrete protein bodies located in the sorghum endosperm with a central core of a-kafirin...
Continuous use of sodium meta bisulphite in juices and syrups are discouraged due to ill effect on health of human .The same may apply to birds and animals as end users health involved .