Lun Sun

Copra meal in animal nutrition: nutritional constraints, processing strategies, and species-specific utilization.

Copra meal (CM), a co-product of coconut oil extraction, is a regionally important feed ingredient whose value cannot be judged from crude protein concentration alone. Its nutritional value is affected by drying and oil-extraction conditions, residual lipid content, mannan-rich cell-wall carbohydrates, and the digestiv...