A semi-automated method for the determination of the available carbohydrate content of poultry feeds

Abstract

A rapid method is described for the determination of the sugar content of takadiastase digests of poultry feeds. The reproducibility of the method has been assessed and the results of recovery tests on pure carbohydrates are presented. The method gives results in reasonable agreement with those obtained by a previously published titrimetric method involving Fehling's reaction.