Citrus and winery wastes : promising dietary supplements for sustainable ruminant animal nutrition, health, production, and meat quality
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2018-10-16
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MDPI
Abstract
Citrus and grapes are the most widely grown fruits globally, with one-third of total production used for juice and wine making. The juice and winemaking processes generate large quantities of solid organic wastes including citrus pulp and grape pomace. These fruit wastes pose serious economic, environmental, and social challenges, especially in low-to-middle-income countries due to financial, technological, and infrastructural limitations. They are, however, rich in valuable compounds which can be utilized in the ruminant livestock industry as novel, economical, and natural sources of cellulose, polyunsaturated fatty acids, and phytochemicals, which have nutritional, anthelmintic, antioxidant, and antimicrobial properties. Despite citrus and grape fruit wastes having such potential, they remain underexploited by the livestock industry in low-to-middle-income countries owing to lack of finance, skills, technology, and infrastructure. Inclusion of these fruit wastes in ruminant diets could combine the desirable effects of enhancing animal nutrition, health, welfare, production, and meat quality attributes with the prevention of challenges associated with their disposal into the environment. The current review explores the valorization potential of citrus and winery wastes as dietary supplements to sustainably enhance ruminant animal nutrition, health, welfare, production, and meat quality.
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CITATION: Tayengwa, T. & Mapiye, C. 2018. Citrus and winery wastes : promising dietary supplements for sustainable ruminant animal nutrition, health, production, and meat quality. Sustainability, 10(10):3718, doi:10.3390/su10103718.
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The original publication is available at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability
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Agricultural wastes, Citrus fruits, Grapes, Ruminants -- Feeding and feeds, Livestock -- Productivity, Dietary supplements, Fruit juice industry -- Waste disposal, Wine and wine making -- Waste disposal
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Tayengwa, T. & Mapiye, C. 2018. Citrus and winery wastes : promising dietary supplements for sustainable ruminant animal nutrition, health, production, and meat quality. Sustainability, 10(10):3718, doi:10.3390/su10103718