Conference paper

Cholesterol content and quality of eggs from hens fed feed mixture supplemented with Lentinus edodes mushroom

Stjepan Mužić
Zlatko Janječić
Marko Mesarić
Krešimir Svalina

Abstract

In attempt to decrease cholesterol content of eggs, hens were fed control diet, feed mixture supplemented with 3 % of Lentinus edodes mushroom or feed mixture supplemented with 20 % of of Lentinus edodes mycelium. During the whole experiment, following laying parameters were recorded for all the eggs: egg weight, shell firmness, index of yolk and albumen, haugh unit. Cholesterol content was measured in the representative sample weekly, during the experiment and a week after the treatment. The results show that feed supplementation with Lentinus edodes did not affect cholesterol content in eggs, egg weight and egg quality.

Keywords

cholesterol; egg quality; layer feeding; Lentinus edodes

Hrčak ID:

1971

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/1971

Publication date:

6.10.2005.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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