Abstract 426

Zumbado,-ME; Murillo,-MG

Escuela de Zootecnia, Facultad de Agronomia, Univ. Costa Rica, Ciudad Universitaria Rodrigo Facio, Costa Rica.

Revista-de-Biologia-Tropical. 1984, 32: 1, 51-56; 20 ref.

Meal was prepared from the fruit, including skin and seeds, of peach palm (Bactris gasipaes) grown in Costa Rica. Content of true metabolizable energy, estimated with Single Comb White Leghorn cockerels, was greater than for maize. It was necessary to separate the seeds from the fruit during preparation of animal feeds. Peach palm meal was low in essential amino acids, particularly methionine. Main lipid component was free fatty acids with smaller amounts of triglycerides and phospholipids. The meal was high in oleic and palmitic acids and adequate in linoleic acid.