Effects of Herbal Tea Residue on Growth Performance, Meat Quality, Muscle Metabolome, and Rumen Microbiota Characteristics in Finishing Steers

Effects of Herbal Tea Residue on Growth Performance, Meat Quality, Muscle Metabolome, and Rumen Microbiota Characteristics in Finishing Steers

Herbal tea residue (HTR) contains various medicinal and nutritional components and is a potential high-quality unconventional source of roughage. In this study, a total of 30 healthy Simmental crossbred finishing steers were equally divided into two groups: CN (fed with a basic diet) and RE (HTR par...

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Main Authors: Ling Li, Xiaohong Sun, Junyi Luo, Ting Chen, Qianyun Xi, Yongliang Zhang, Jiajie Sun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
feed resources
herbal tea residue
muscle metabolism
microbial diversity
beef
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.821293/full

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