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Pea by-products

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This datasheet is pending revision and updating; its contents are currently derived from FAO's Animal Feed Resources Information System (1991-2002) and from Bo Göhl's Tropical Feeds (1976-1982).

Datasheet

Description
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Common names 
  • Pea by-products, frozen pea by-products, canning pea by-products
  • Pea hulls
  • Pea pulp, pea solubles
Description 

The industrial processing of garden and field peas yield different by-products that can be used to feed livestock (Jaguelin-Peyraud et al., 2005; Leclerc, 2004):

  • Field pea processing yields discarded peas, pea hulls and other seed residues from the cleaning and splitting operations
  • Green pea processing (canning and freezing) yields a mixture of leaves, stems and empty pods resulting from the cleaning process
  • The pea starch industry yields pea protein (a protein concentrate) and two by-products: pea pulp (a wet product containing cell walls an residual starch), and pea solubles.
Nutritional aspects
Ruminants 

Empty pea pods can be used in a variety of ways (fresh in mixture with wheat straw, ensiled with wheat straw or dry) in animal feeding as it is shown in the following video :

Rabbits 

By-product of frozen pea processing

The by-product consists of pods and small shelled peas discarded by frozen pea processing plants. After drying, this by-product could be used in rabbit feeding, due to its relatively high levels of protein (20.4 % DM) and fibre (NDF 59 % DM and ADL 5 % DM). In a test where 0, 5 or 10 % of this by-product was included in growing rabbits diets, performance was independent of the inclusion level for average daily gain, feed efficiency and slaughter rate (Grandi et al., 1983).

Nutritional tables
Tables of chemical composition and nutritional value 
References
References 
Datasheet citation 

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