Starch and fiber properties affect their kinetics of digestion and thereby digestive physiology in pigs (original) (raw)
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The objective of this study was to determine the effect of dietary starch sources on the balance of glucose and amino acids across the portal-drained viscera (PDV) of growing pigs. Four Duroc×Landrance×Yolkshire cross-bred barrows (with an average body wt of 22.5 kg) were housed individually in stainless steel metabolism cages and trained to consume feed provided daily. After a 2-wk adaptation period, pigs were tted with permanent catheters in the portal vein, mesenteric vein, and carotid artery. After a 13-d recovery period, pigs were assigned randomly into one of 4 treatment groups in a 4×4 Latin square design representing 4 cornstarchand casein-based isocaloric and isonitrogenous diets containing 52.0% corn, 65.8% brown rice, 65.3% sticky rice, and 51.8% Hi-Maize 1043 (resistant starch). Pigs were fed 3 times daily at 07:30, 15:30 and 23:30 at a feeding level of >963 kJ DE/kg diet. Each diet was fed to the pig after a 6-d adaptation period. On d 7, blood samples were obtained...
PLOS ONE, 2016
Aside from being used as stabilizing agents in many processed foods, chemically modified starches may act as functional dietary ingredients. Therefore, development of chemically modified starches that are less digestible in the upper intestinal segments and promote fermentation in the hindgut receives considerable attention. This study aimed to investigate the impact of an enzymatically modified starch (EMS) on nutrient flow, passage rate, and bacterial activity at ileal and post-ileal level. Eight ileal-cannulated growing pigs were fed 2 diets containing 72% purified starch (EMS or waxy cornstarch as control) in a cross-over design for 10 d, followed by a 4-d collection of feces and 2-d collection of ileal digesta. On d 17, solid and liquid phase markers were added to the diet to determine ileal digesta flow for 8 h after feeding. Reduced small intestinal digestion after the consumption of the EMS diet was indicated by a 10%-increase in ileal flow and fecal excretion of dry matter and energy compared to the control diet (P<0.05). Moreover, EMS feeding reduced ileal transit time of both liquid and solid fractions compared to the control diet (P<0.05). The greater substrate flow to the large intestine with the EMS diet increased the concentrations of total and individual short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) in feces (P<0.05). Total bacterial 16S rRNA gene abundance was not affected by diet, whereas the relative abundance of the Lactobacillus group decreased (P<0.01) by 50% and of Enterobacteriaceae tended (P<0.1) to increase by 20% in ileal digesta with the EMS diet compared to the control diet. In conclusion, EMS appears to resemble a slowly digestible starch by reducing intestinal transit and increasing SCFA in the distal large intestine.
Food Research International, 2016
The current study was undertaken to investigate the relationship between the in vitro starch digestion kinetics and the in vivo portal glucose appearance in pigs used as models for humans. In vivo data was obtained from a previous study where the portal glucose appearance was obtained from six catheterised pigs equipped with permanent catheters in an artery and the portal vein and with a flow probe attached to the portal vein for monitoring the blood flow rate. Three experimental diets were studieda low dietary fiber (DF) Western-style diet (WSD) and two high-DF diets containing resistant starch (RSD) or arabinoxylan (AXD). A modified Englyst-assay involving gradual glucose hydrolysis over a time frame of 6h was used in vitro. The in vitro starch digestion kinetics was modelled using a mechanistic growth model (R 2 >0.995), whereas the in vivo data were better described by a sigmoid Gompertz model (R 2 >0.997). The estimated plateau values were higher in vitro than in vivo but the diets were similarly ranked; ~95 % for AXD and WSD and 81.8 % for RSD in vitro and ~86 % and 76.6 % for the same diets in vivo. The rate of glucose release in vitro was much faster than the portal glucose appearance in vivo (0.0347-0.0705 versus 0.0136-0.0197 % starch/min) with the starch in RSD the most slowly degradable. This difference was most likely an effect of gastric retention. In conclusion, the in vitro method ranked the three diets in a similar relative manner as in vivo but the rate of glucose release was much faster in vitro than in vivo but it was only when the starch structure set the limit for the starch hydrolysis that similar relative results were obtained.
Animal, 2019
Grains rich in starch constitute the primary source of energy for both pigs and humans, but there is incomplete understanding of physiological mechanisms that determine the extent of digestion of grain starch in monogastric animals including pigs and humans. Slow digestion of starch to produce glucose in the small intestine (SI) leads to undigested starch escaping to the large intestine where it is fermented to produce short-chain fatty acids. Glucose generated from starch provides more energy than short-chain fatty acids for normal metabolism and growth in monogastrics. While incomplete digestion of starch leads to underutilised feed in pigs and economic losses, it is desirable in human nutrition to maintain consistent body weight in adults. Undigested nutrients reaching the ileum may trigger the ileal brake, and fermentation of undigested nutrients or fibre in the large intestine triggers the colonic brake. These intestinal brakes reduce the passage rate in an attempt to maximise ...
Digestion of starch and glycaemic response to mixed meals in pigs
Reproduction Nutrition Development, 1999
The digestion in the proximal intestine of mixed meals (5 160 kJ) containing either native (NS) or pregelatinized (PS) maize starches (= 200 g), and the postprandial glycaemic responses they induced were compared in pigs. For both meals, = 25 % of the ingested starch was assimilated above the duodenal cannula (positioned 75 cm beyond the pylorus). Larger amounts of starch were collected for NS than for PS during the first 30 min. The glycaemic responses, however, indicated a higher rate of glucose absorption for PS during the first 30 min, which could be explained by the higher susceptibility of PS to hydrolysis, as we observed in vivo. Indeed, malto-oligosaccharides (G1-G3) represented almost 80 % of the total a-glucans collected at 150 min in the duodenum after the PS meal. At that time, after the NS meal, only 30 % of the a-glucans were malto-oligosaccharides. Thus, even after a mixed meal, the starch digestion rate can alter the observed postprandial glycaemic response. © Inra/Elsevier, Paris.
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 2007
The present study aimed to assess the digestive consequences of the long-term intake of two starches providing different amounts of resistant starch. Growing pigs were used as the animal model and meal-fed for 14 weeks on a diet containing a high amount of either raw potato starch (RPS) or corn starch (CS). Digestive adaptation was chronologically evaluated by measuring organic matter (OM), crude protein (CP), neutral detergent fibre (NDF) and starch digestibility. After 97 days, whole-tract digestibility of OM, CP and NDF was lower for RPS-compared to CS-fed pigs, whereas no differences were observed in faecal starch digestibility. In contrast, starch digestibility was reduced in the proximal compartments (ileum, caecum and proximal colon) of animals fed the RPS diet. The concentration of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs; P < 0.05), and purine bases (PBs; P < 0.01) was also higher in distal colon and rectum of animals fed the RPS diet. Changes in bacterial community structure (dendogram analyses) were seen in the rectum. Biodiversity tends to increase more in RPS compared to CS fed animals (34.1 vs. 28.8; P = 0.07). Among SCFAs, the proportion of butyrate was twofold higher in proximal colon digesta of RPS compared to CS fed pigs (0.20 vs. 0.11; P < 0.05). Increased butyrate formation in the colon reduced the number of apoptosis per crypt in the proximal colonic mucosa (0.38 vs. 0.62; P < 0.05). RPS fermentation reduced indices associated with damage to intestinal epithelial cells, such as crypt cell hyperproliferation and magnesium excretion. Long-term ingestion of RPS induces pronounced changes of the digestive tract and their microflora, modifying mineral absorption and colonic morphology for which health benefits are likely to be associated.
Animal Nutrition, 2015
We investigated the pattern of non-starch polysaccharide (NSP) digestion along the gut of pigs fed two different wheats, which were offered with or without xylanase supplementation. The two wheats used were pre-characterised before the experiment on the basis of low and normal feed intake of young pigs. Wheat type significantly influenced feed intake and growth rate in the first 7 days, however, by day 14 the only significant effect of wheat type was on growth rate. Xylanase supplementation increased the growth performance of pigs fed the poor quality wheat to a level similar to those fed the normal wheat. It also increased the daily gain of pigs fed the normal wheat. Wheat type had no significant effect on the digestibility of dry matter (DM), energy, free sugars or the different fractions of NSP in the duodenum, ileum or in the faeces. The duodenal gross energy digestibility values for the low and high performance diets were À 27.4 and À 47.5%, respectively, and xylanase supplementation significantly increased the digestibility of energy back to positive levels. Dry matter digestibility values followed a similar pattern. In the duodenum, xylanase increased (P o 0.05) the digestibility values of both soluble and insoluble NSP, whereas in the ileum, xylanase had a significant effect only on the digestibility of the soluble NSP fraction. Xylanase did not affect free sugar digestibility. The reduction in soluble NSP level coincided with a marked reduction in the amount of fucose, a prominent component of mucosal polysaccharides. This suggests that soluble NSP substantially increase endogenous losses. The absence of differences in the digestibility of the measured NSP between the two wheat samples suggests that the structures of the NSP, rather than just their amount and solubility, are important for the anti-nutritional properties of NSP in pig diets.
Resistant starch: Implications of dietary inclusion on gut health and growth in pigs: a review
Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology
Starch from cereal grains, pulse grains, and tubers is a major energy substrate in swine rations constituting up to 55% of the diet. In pigs, starch digestion is initiated by salivary and then pancreatic α-amylase, and has as final step the digestion of disaccharides by the brush-border enzymes in the small intestine that produce monosaccharides (glucose) for absorption. Resistant starch (RS) is the proportion of starch that escapes the enzymatic digestion and absorption in the small intestine. The undigested starch reaches the distal small intestine and hindgut for microbial fermentation, which produces short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) for absorption. SCFA in turn, influence microbial ecology and gut health of pigs. These fermentative metabolites exert their benefits on gut health through promoting growth and proliferation of enterocytes, maintenance of intestinal integrity and thus immunity, and modulation of the microbial community in part by suppressing the growth of pathogenic ba...
Carbohydrates in pig nutrition – Recent advances
Journal of Animal Science, 2016
The dietary carbohydrates are a diverse group of substances with a range of chemical, physical, and physiological properties. The primary chemical classification of carbohydrates is by molecular size (degree of polymerization [DP]), the type of linkage (α or β), and composition of individual monomers. This approach divides carbohydrates into 3 main groups, sugars (DP1-2), oligosaccharides (DP3-9), and polysaccharides (DP ≥ 10), the latter being further divided into starch (α-1:4,1,6-D-glucans) and nonstarch polysaccharides (NSP). Dietary fiber (DF) recently has been defined as carbohydrate polymers with 3 and more monomeric units plus lignin, which are not hydrolyzed by the endogenous enzymes in the small intestine of humans. This physiologically based definition is broader than what classically has been considered fiber in animal nutrition and delimitates carbohydrates according to their potential for digestion by endogenous enzymes. Carbohydrates are the principal substrates for energy metabolism but also exert a number of other effects throughout the gastrointestinal tract. The starch structure as well as type and levels of DF influence, to a varying degree, the rate of starch digestion in the small intestine. Some types of soluble NSP are found to interact with intestinal mucus and produce a layer that significantly delays the transport of lipid digestion products. Potentially, the same may be the case for proteinous compounds. The delay in the transport of the nutrients to the gut epithelium can potentially influence gastric emptying and the satiating effect of the feed mediated through gastrointestinal hormones. Dietary fiber compounds that reach the large intestine undigested can, by a targeted approach, be used to modulate the gastrointestinal environment and the production of fermentation products. For instance, resistant starch and some NSP have been found to stimulate butyrate-producing microorganisms and increase the production, luminal concentration, and absorption of short-chain fatty acids and butyrate. Resistant starch in diets further provoked major changes in colonic gene expression, which represents induction of oxidative metabolic pathways and suppression of immune response and cell division pathways.