Lupine is a high-protein fodder crop; its amino acid composition is very similar to the soybean’s. Besides, lupine does not contain trypsin inhibitors. Lupine has 6-8 times more starch and 5-8 times more pectin compared to soy.
Barohydrothermal treatment of lupine increases the starch accessibility and thereby increases energy value of the feed. The heat treatment of lupine removes its pellicle thereby reducing the fiber index. After processing, the rate of rumen undegradable protein also increases.
Lupine is fed to dairy cows, both straight and within compound feed products.
Nutritional value
- Humidity,% — 8.5
- Crude protein in ADM,% — 44.0
- Raw Cell. in ADM,% — 5.2
- Crude fat in the ADM,% — 11.0
- Total ash in the ADM,% — 3,7
- Phosphorus,% — 0.52
- Calcium,% — 0.58
Amino acids g/kg of natural substance:
- Aspartic acid + aspartic acid — 57.,2
- Glutamic acid + glutamine — 72.7
- Serine — 35.9
- Histidine — 8.2
- Glycine — 16.9
- Threonine — 16.0
- Arginine — 47.6
- Alanine — 15.1
- Tyrosine — 21.6
- Valin — 16.5
- Methionine — 1.5
- Cystine — 4.5
- Isoleucine — 20.1
- Phenylalanine — 16.9
- Leucine — 31.4
- Lysine — 24.03
- Tryptophan — 3.2
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