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Broiler chicken body weights, feed intakes, plasma lipid and small-intestinal bile acid concentrations in response to feeding of chitosan and pectin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

A. Razdan ,
D. Pettersson  and
J. Pettersson
A. Razdan
Affiliation:
Department of Food Science, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, S-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
D. Pettersson
Affiliation:
Department of Food Science, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, S-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
J. Pettersson
Affiliation:
Department of Food Science, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, S-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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Abstract

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One-day-old broiler chickens were fed on a control diet based on maize and maize starch or diets containing 30g/kg of 89 % deacetylated chitin (chitosan) or low-methoxyl (34 % degree of esterification) pectin. Feeding of the chitosan diet to chickens significantly reduced body weights and feed intakes compared with animals fed on control or pectin diets on days 5 and 11 of the experiment. On day 12, significant reductions in total plasma cholesterol and HDL-cholesterol concentrations were observed among birds fed on the chitosan but not the pectin diet in relation to control-fed animals. A concomitant increase in the plasma HDL-cholesterol:total cholesterol ratio was observed among chitosan-fed chickens. The generally reduced concentrations of primary and total bile acids in the duodenum of birds fed on the fibre-containing diets on day 13 may have been an indication of a delay in the production and/or secretion of bile. Viscosity of the three broiler-chicken diets was measured after suspension in water, acidification and finally neutralization of the suspensions, in an attempt to simulate the effect of changes in pH and dilution of diets occurring in the gizzard and small intestine of chickens. Viscosity of the chitosan diet was significantly elevated after acidification and significantly reduced at neutralization in comparison with the control and pectin-containingdiets suggesting that the hypolipidaemic influence of chitosan observed in the present study may be due to interruption of enterohepatic bile acid circulation rather than increased viscosity in the small intestine of chickens. The low viscosity of the pectin diet in vitro together with the absence of a hypocholesterolaemic effect of this diet when fed in vivo precludes any conclusion regarding the hypocholesterolaemic mechanism of pectin observed in earlier studies.

Keywords

ChitosanPectinPlasmaBile acidsViscosity
Type
Animal Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 78 , Issue 2 , August 1997 , pp. 283 - 291
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1997

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