The Antinutritional Factors and Technological Processing of Sorghum and Its Application in Pig Production

Simple Summary This review explores the potential of sorghum as an alternative to corn in swine diets, focusing on summarizing the current state of knowledge regarding the role of sorghum in animal nutrition and expounding the improvement of nutritional value of forage sorghum by crushing, extrusion, and enzymatic hydrolysis. It highlights the antinutritional components that are present and the processing methods affecting the reduction in their content, such as a low essential amino acid content and high levels of antinutritional compounds. It organizes information on the nutritional value of sorghum as feed and the possibilities of its use in the nutrition of pigs. It has a certain reference function for professionals engaged in pig nutrition, feed raw materials, and feed resources development.

• Publication year

  2025

• Venue

  Animals

• Publication date

  2025-01-24

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3390/ani15030328PMID 39943098PMCID 11815927
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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