Application of Glycerol in Ruminant Production

  • PIAO Minyu ,
  • DIAO Qiyu ,
  • TU Yan
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  • Institute of Feed Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China

Received date: 2020-12-15

  Online published: 2021-07-06

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Abstract

With the advent of a large number of biofuel by-products, people are increasingly interested in producing biodiesel as a bio-renewable fuel. Glycerin, also known as glycerol, is a by-product produced in the process of biodiesel. It is a colorless and flavorless syrup-like liquid, but it tastes sweet and has a high solubility index in water. In addition, glycerol is an important substrate for the synthesis of triglycerides and phospholipids in liver and adipose tissue, and also can participate in gluconeogenesis and glycolysis pathway for glucose metabolism, thus increasing blood glucose content and reducing ketone body content. In recent years, a large number of experiments used low level of glycerol as a supplement to improve energy balance and hepatic glycogenesis for dairy cows in transient period in order to alleviate ketosis. However, when the level of glycerol supplement is too high, the ruminal contents of propionic acid and butyric acid would be increased, which could cause rumen metabolic acidosis. This review summarized the feasibility of glycerin as a precursor of gluconeogenesis to replace some portions of energy source in diets according to the effect of glycerin in feed on growth performance, nutrient metabolism, rumen fermentation and carcass traits of ruminants.

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PIAO Minyu , DIAO Qiyu , TU Yan . Application of Glycerol in Ruminant Production[J]. Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition, 2021 , 33(7) : 3608 -3621 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-267x.2021.07.002

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