Nutritive Value of Ajuga iva as a Pastoral Plant for Ruminants: Plant Phytochemicals and In Vitro Gas Production and Digestibility

• Published in: Agriculture (Basel) Vol. 12; no. 8; p. 1199
• Main Authors: Ammar, Hajer, Kholif, Ahmed Eid, Soltan, Yosra Ahmed, Almadani, Mohammad Isam, Soufan, Walid, Morsy, Amr Salah, Ouerghemmi, Saloua, Chahine, Mireille, de Haro Marti, Mario E., Hassan, Sawsan, Selmi, Houcine, Horst, Egon Henrique, Lopez, Secundino
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.08.2022
• Subjects: Acids; Ajuga; Ajuga iva; Analytical chemistry; Animals; Antioxidants; Chemical composition; Cultivation; Degradability; Digestibility; Dry matter; Feeds; Flavonoids; Gas production; growing conditions; Lag time; Metabolites; Nutritive value; Oil and gas production; Oils & fats; phenolic; Phenolic compounds; Phenols; Phytochemicals; Polyphenols; Proteins; Scavenging; Soils; unconventional feeds; United States > US; Tunisia; Spain

This study aims to evaluate the nutritive value of Ajuga iva (A. iva) harvested from three distinct altitude regions in Tunisia (Dougga, Mograne, and Nabeul). The chemical composition, phenolic concentration, gas production, and in vitro dry matter (DM) digestibility were determined. The highest con...