Effect of supplementing pomegranate peel infusion on body growth, feed efficiency, biochemical metabolites and antioxida
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Effect of supplementing pomegranate peel infusion on body growth, feed efficiency, biochemical metabolites and antioxidant status of broiler chicken Sarbaswarup Ghosh 1 & Paresh Nath Chatterjee 2 & Apratim Maity 3 & Joydip Mukherjee 4 & Subhasis Batabyal 3 & Jayanta Kumar Chatterjee 1 Received: 28 January 2020 / Accepted: 13 July 2020 # Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract Pomegranate fruit peel is a great source of natural polyphenols. The objective of the present study was to evaluate efficacy of pomegranate peel infusion (PPI) on growth characteristics, feed efficiency, blood metabolites and antioxidant profile of broiler chicken. A total of 200 broiler chickens were randomly assigned to 4 treatments with 5 replicates of 10 birds. Pomegranate peel infusion was supplemented in drinking water to 3 treatment groups in a graded dose. At the end of the trial (42 days), 2 broiler chickens from each pen were sampled for serum and liver tissue. Results revealed that low-dose (50 mL/L) PPI influenced (L: P < 0.001) final body weight, daily body weight gain, and feed conversion ratio. Quadratic effect (Q: P < 0.001) was found in overall body weight, average daily gain in body weight, and average daily feed intake. It was also observed that PPI had significant (L: P < 0.05) hypo-lipidaemic effect. PPI supplementation reduced (L: P < 0.01) lipid peroxidation in all supplemented birds. Reduced glutathione and catalase in the liver tissue was also increased linearly (L: P < 0.05) by PPI supplementation, suggesting that natural polyphenols present in the PPI can stimulate antioxidant defence system. Thus, it could be concluded that low-dose supplementation of pomegranate peel infusion could be of great benefits in broiler chickens as a source of natural antioxidants. Keywords Antioxidant . Blood metabolite . Broiler chicken . Pomegranate peel infusion
Introduction Due to booming of food processing industry, fruit jelly and beverage producing workshops gives forth large quanta of processing wastes like peels and marc which easily remains available for Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-020-02352-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Sarbaswarup Ghosh [email protected] 1
Department of Animal Science, Visva Bharati University, Sriniketan, Santiniketan 731235, India
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Department of Fish Nutrition, West Bengal University of Animal & Fishery Science, Belgachia, Kolkata 700037, India
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Department of Veterinary Biochemistry, West Bengal University of Animal & Fishery Science, Belgachia, Kolkata 700037, India
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Department of Animal Physiology, West Bengal University of Animal & Fishery Science, Belgachia, Kolkata 700037, India
recycling (Selvamuthukumaran and Shi 2017). Pomegranate fruit peel (PP) contains plethora of phenolic acids and flavonoids with remarkable antioxidant and other bioactive properties (Wu and Tian 2017). Previous research (Saleh et al. 2017) demonstrated that pomegranate peel
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