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Effects of Substituting Xylose for Glucose in a Purified Diet for Pigs¹

North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station^,4

Abstract

Two experiments were conducted to compare xylose and glucose as sources of carbohydrate in the diets of young pigs.

Experiment I consisted of a growth-performance study using 4 replications of pigs, which were hand fed three purified diets containing 37.4% of sugar, glucose, xylose, or a 50-50 mixture of the two. Experiment II included studies of nitrogen retention and sugar recovery as well as of growth-performance; data were obtained from 5 pairs of pigs, which were pair-fed comparative diets containing 56%, resspectively, of glucose or of xylose.

Growth-performance and balance studies indicated that pigs were able to utilize glucose to a greater degree than xylose.

Cataract formation resulted after feeding a diet containing xylose at the level of 56% of the dry matter.

Voluntary activity was decreased, and the color of the hair coat was altered from deep red to yellowish-red in pigs fed xylose.

¹ Published with the approval of the director of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station as Paper No. 530 of the journal series.

² The data in this paper were taken in part from a thesis submitted to the Graduate School of North Carolina State College in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Science in Animal Industry.

³ The authors express their appreciation to the Northern Regional Research Laboratory of the United States Department of Agriculture for the liberal quantities of xylose supplied through the courtesy of Dr. E. C. Lathrop.

⁴ Raleigh.