Feed pea offers attractive opportunities as an aqua feed ingredient

摘要

Pea, the ubiquitous legume that was domesticated 10,000 years ago, is more known as human food and for helping Gregor Mendel to discover basic principles of heredity. It is also fast becoming a mainstream animal feed ingredient. Research on feed peaas an aqua feed ingredient is recent, but there is already sufficient evidence that it can be included in fish and shrimp feeds at up to 40 percent or more. Its attractive price makes it an excellent opportunity ingredient. Pea (Pisum sotivum) is widelyknown as a human food crop. However, the feed-grade version of this crop is rapidly gaining recognition as an excellent ingredient in animal feeds. This rising interest in feed pea is mainly because of the moderate levels of protein (22-25 percent) andrichness in starch (approx 50 percent), all in one ingredient. Plant breeding has also eliminated or substantially reduced anti-nutritional factors that used to be found in feed pea. This and other development of peas has been done using traditional plant breeding techniques, so feed pea is also gaining popularity as a non-GMO ingredient.