Saccharum officinarum

Feed grade sugar

When the world market price of sugar is low, the surplus above the quotas is usually imported as feed-grade sugar. Sugar released for feed purposes is either coloured or denatured (e.g., with fish meal) to distinguish it from sugar intended for human consumption. A low percentage (10%) is usually included as a sweetener in creep feeds, especially for pigs. Sugar has been used to replace the cereal portion in poultry feeds, in which the calorific value is maintained by the addition of fats. It has been found that broilers grow as fast on a diet of this type as on a conventional ration based on cereals. For layers the same egg production has been maintained, but the eggs are smaller. In all cases, feed conversion has been somewhat poorer than with cereal diets. Sucrose added to ruminant diets supports growth but not lactation. 

As % of dry matter

DM

CP

CF

Ash

EE

NFE

Ca

P

Ref

Crude sugar,

West Indies

97.0

0.0

0.0

1.2

0.0

98.8

7

References

7, 375, 382