Whole soybeans, from which the oil is not extracted, are referred to as full-fat soybeans (FFSB) and may be used in diets for poultry and pigs because of it is high contents of protein, oil, linoleic acid, vitamin E, and lecithin. Unprocessed raw soybeans, however, contain several anti-nutritional factors including trypsin inhibitors that make them unsuitable as a feed for pigs and poultry, because the protein digesting enzymes are impaired by the trypsin inhibitors, which reduces digestibility, depresses growth rate, and decreases the efficiency of feed utilization when fed to swine. However, there is a lack of data for the nutritional value of FFSB. Therefore, two experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis that there is no difference among FFSB sources 01, 02, 03, 04, and 05 in the digestible energy (DE), the metabolizable energy (ME), and the standardized total tract digestibility (STTD) of P when fed to growing pigs.

Ruiz-Arias, N. C., S. A. Lee, H. H. Stein. 2024. Standardized ileal digestibility of amino acids and metabolizable energy in three sources of high-protein corn distillers dried grains fed to weanling pigs. Animal Feed Science and Technology 313, 115985. doi.org/10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2024.115985 Link to full text.