K Lakshmi Janakamma ¹, Philomena Royappa Reddy ¹

Affiliations
1 Dept. of Home Science, S.V. University, Tirupathi - 517502, IN

Abstract

The availability of nutrients may be Influenced by the interaction of one nutrient with another. Carbohydrates and proteins exist in close association both within the seed and the diet as well. The response of an animal to a particular protein has been shown to depend upon the corbohydrate in the meal. The vegetarian diets of the developing countries are the combinations of both cereals and pulses. The pulse also contains a good amount of starch. Thus it was considered important, in the present investigation to determine the pulse protein digestibility as affected by other dietary cereal starches and also with its own associated seed starch.

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K Lakshmi Janakamma ¹, Philomena Royappa Reddy ¹

Affiliations
1 Dept. of Home Science, S.V. University, Tirupathi-517 502, IN

Abstract

Scattered reports have demonstrated that carbohydrate digestibility has an effect on protein digestibility. In vivo carbohydrate digestibility studies showed that the faecal bulk is an indication of low digestibility of carbohydrate, Harper et al and Change observed that the faecal nitrogen excretions were influenced by the type of carbohydrate in the rat. In the present study, by considering faecal weight as an indicator of starch digestibility and faecal food nitrogen as an indicator of protein digestibility an attempt is made to interpret the relationship of starch digestibility to protein digestibility.

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