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Energy values of lactitol and lactulose as determined with miniature pigs and growing rats
Author(s) -
Bird Susan P,
Hewitt David,
Gurrf Michael I
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of the science of food and agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1097-0010
pISSN - 0022-5142
DOI - 10.1002/jsfa.2740510211
Subject(s) - lactulose , energy balance , arid , zoology , digestion (alchemy) , food science , chemistry , biology , chromatography , biochemistry , ecology
Digestible and metabolisable energy values were determined by the metabolic balance method. The mean (and SEM) metabolisuble energy values for lactitol were 11.8 (0.8) arid 9.8 (1.5) kJ g −1 , respectively, for the laboratory rat arid the miniature pig. For lactulose, metabolisable energy values were 8.4 (1.0) and 9.0 (0.8) kJ g‐ −1 , respectiuely, for the rat and pig. Digestible energy vulues were little different from these metabolisable energy values indicating that the efficiency o f utilisation of the digestion products absorbed may be high.