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Journal of Animal Science, Vol 78, Issue 4 1017-1021, Copyright © 2000 by American Society of Animal Science

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Zinc bioavailability in soybean meal

H. M. Edwards 3rd and D. H. Baker
Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA.

A phytate-containing soy protein concentrate (SPC) diet (13.5 mg Zn/kg) and a phytate-free egg white diet (.3 mg Zn/kg) were used to determine the relative bioavailability (RBV) of Zn in dehulled soybean meal (SBM) based on Zn depletion-repletion growth bioassays in young chicks. After a 4-d Zn depletion period, chick weight gain responded linearly (P < .01) to graded increments of supplemental Zn (0 to 10 mg/kg) from ZnSO4 x 7H2O, whether added to the Zn-deficient SPC or egg white diet. Slope, however, was over twice as great for the standard curve relating weight gain to supplemental Zn intake for the egg white diet as for the SPC diet. Addition of 7 to 10 mg Zn/kg from SBM to either Zn-deficient diet increased (P < .01) weight gain, but a similar SBM addition to either diet made adequate in Zn did not increase weight gain. Using standard-curve methodology, RBV of Zn in SBM was 78% when the the SPC diet was used, but it was only 40% when the egg white diet was used. The phytate contained in the SPC basal diet therefore markedly reduced the efficiency of utilizing the supplemental inorganic Zn from ZnSO4 x 7H2O. This lowered the slope of the standard curve so that, on a relative basis, the Zn in SBM had a higher RBV value than was the case for Zn utilization in SBM with the phytate-free egg white diet. The 78% Zn RBV value in SBM would seem to have the greatest relevance for practical-type corn-SBM diets.


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