SOYBEAN MEAL - AN OVERVIEW

Soybean meal is made up of oligosaccharides which include raffinose and stachyose that can not be digested by monogastric animals, due to the lack of a certain endogenous alpha-galactosidase. Raffinose and stachyose can cause flatulence and diarrhoea that could raise the digesta passage amount, and reduce digestion and absorption of dietary nutrien