Lecture 11 - Analysis Flashcards

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5 objectives of analysis

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  • Classify
  • Estimate energy content
  • Calculate protein value (e.g. biological)
  • Labels
  • To evaluate differences e.g. in geographical area, year, season
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5 steps

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  • sampling
  • packaging and transport
  • preparation for analysis
  • analysis
  • report
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Sampled Portion

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a unit that has characteristics presumed to be uniform.

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Incremental Sample

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quantity taken from one point of the sample portion

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Aggregate Sample

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combination of multiple incremental samples from the same sampled portion.

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Reduced Sample

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Representative part of the aggregate sample, by a process of reduction

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Final Sample

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part of the reduced sample or of the homogenised aggregate sample

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PACKAGING AND TRANSPORT, things to consider

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  • light -> dark
  • oxygen ->vacuum
  • heat ->freeze or refrigerate
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Possible PREPARATIONS OF SAMPLES

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  • Lyophilization
  • Preliminary drying
  • Grinding
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10
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What Is Done in Proximate Analysis

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  • food/feed gets separated into dry matter and moisture
  • dry matter gets separated into organic matter and ash
  • organic matter can be separated into crude protein and ternary compounds
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11
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Dry Matter (DM)

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sample is heated in an oven at 103C until it has a constant weight
Dry Matter (%) = 100 - Moisture
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Ash

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dry matter is burnt in a muffle oven at 550C until all the carbon has been removed and only minerals remain
Organic Matter “OM ” (%) = 100 - Moisture (%) - Ash (%)

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13
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Crude Protein (CP)

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Crude Protein (%) = N x 6,25
determines Nitrogen content assuming that it's 16% in proteins
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Ether Extract (EE)

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Extraction with some solvent (petroleum ether) that gives the fat of the sample

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Crude Fiber (CF)

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Treatments of the sample with boiling acid followed by alkali in defined concentrations

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Nitrogen Free Extract (NFE)

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heterogeneous mixture of all those components that were not determined in the other analyses
NFE (%) = 100 – Moisture (%) – Ash (%) – CP (%) – EE (%) – CF (%)

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VAN SOEST ANALYSIS

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based on the solubility of the cell wall components (fibrous fractions), in different pH solutions
FOR RUMINANTS, GRAVIMETRIC METHOD

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NDF (Neutral-Detergent Fiber)

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represents all the parts of the plant cell wall
Cell content (CC) = 100 – NDF (%)
The higher the NDF, the lower the DM intake.
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ADF (Acid-Detergent Fiber)

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acidic solution removes the hemicellulose

Hemicellulose (%) =NDF (%) – ADF (%)

20
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Acid Detergent Lignin (ADL)

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sulfuric acid solution removes cellulose. What remains at the end is: lignin and insoluble ash
Cellulose (%) = ADF (%) – ADL (%)

21
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Lignin

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to determine the lignin content, ashing of the ADL residue is done at 550C in a muffle oven
Lignin (%) = ADL (%) – AIA (%)
important as ruminants cannot digest lignin

22
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Is the dietary fiber analysis used for ruminants?

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NO, it’s a van soest for MONOGASTRIC ANIMALS

23
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Dietary Fiber

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Lignin plus those polysaccharides that cannot be digested by monogastric endogenous enzymes
soluble + insoluble

24
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Dietary fiber analysis procedure (4 steps)

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Enzymatic method

  • samples are gelatinised by heating
  • treated with enzymes to remove starch and proteins
  • total dietary fibre is precipitated with ethanol
  • the residue is dried and weighed at the end
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Can you perform proximate analysis, van soest and dietary fiber analysis on the same sample?
Yes, this will give you the full chemical composition of feed/food
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NIR (NEAR INFRARED) SPECTROSCOPY
The machine irradiates a sample, and in the memory of the machine are some predetermined values that will be compared to the sample to give its nutrient composition.