Soybean proximate composition

Stanton (2000) and her team worked on the supplementation of cow s diet with ingredients such as full fat rapeseed, full fat soybean, and pulp-n-brew (by-product of brewers grains rich in LA) to study their effect on the CLA levels in milk. When diets of pasture-fed cows were supplemented with full fat rapeseed and full fat soybean, the CLA levels in milk fat increased by 53% and 34%, respectively, after 18 days of feeding when compared to the unsupplemented group of cows on pasture which served as control. The yield and proximate composition of milk were unaffected by the supplementation. 

Wolf ( ) has pointed out that the soybean could be classified as a protein seed rather than an oilseed. Average proximate composition of presently grown varieties Is 40% protein and 20% oil depending upon variety and strain, protein content ranges between 34-49% and oil content ranges from 14-25% ( 2). Protein content In soybeans Is higher than In many meat products and about twice that of other food legumes on an as-ls basis. 

Sarkar, P. K., Tamang, J. R, Cook, P. E., Owens, J. D. (1994). Kinema - a traditional soybean fermented food proximate composition and microflora. Food Microbiology, 11,47-55. 

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