B. S. Ahuja ¹, D. S. Wagle ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Chemistry, Panjabi University, Patiala, IN
2 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Haryana Agricultural University, Hissar-125 001, IN

Abstract

β-carotene constitutes a considerable source of vitamin A in most animal species. It has been observed that the utilisation of small doses of β-carotene in aqueous suspension as vitamin A deposits in liver and kidney were enhanced with the increase in dietary casein from 11 per cent to 40 per cent.

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B. S. Ahuja ¹, A. K. Chopra ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Chemistry, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-5, IN
2 Department of Animal Sciences, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, IN

Abstract

Very few reports on the effect of trypsin supplementation on the nutritive value of soybean and other legume proteins are available in literature. More over the results reported so far are quite contradictory. As early as 1951, Borchers and Ackerson reported the beneficial effect of trypsin supplementation on the nutritive value of soybean oil meal.

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