Sesamum indicum

Sesame, gingelly, benne

Useful reference: 87

An erect annual plant 0.5-2.5 m high which matures in 70-150 days. The fruit consists of an elliptical pod with two to four chambers containing about twenty seeds each. After extraction of the oil from the seeds, the resulting oilcake is a valuable high- protein feed. Combined with groundnut meal it provides a well-balanced protein supplement. Mixed with an equal amount of cottonseed meal, it has been included up to 15% in chick rations. Supplemented with blood meal and energy this feed has been quite successful.

USE. The oilcake is palatable to all classes of livestock and has a mildly laxative effect. If it forms too large a part of the ruminant or swine ration, it will produce soft butter and pork. It is recommended that dairy animals be given no more than 3 kg of sesame cake per day, as larger amounts will give the milk a disagreeable taste. It should not be wetted when fed, as the meat will acquire an unpleasant taste.

Sesame meal is frequently used as the principal protein in both growing and fattening rations for swine, constituting up to 30% when 5% of the ration is a lysine-rich ingredient, such as meat meal. Excessive use of sesame meal may produce soft pork.

As sesame cake is rich in methionine and arginine, it has great potential as a poultry feed when mixed with lysine-rich materials. It has a high content of phytic acid and appears to bind calcium; hence the amount of calcium in diets containing sesame meal should be increased. The cake will become rancid if stored for any length of time.

					As % of dry matter
				DM	CP	CF	Ash	EE	NFE	Ca	P	Ref
Seeds, India					19.7	1.7	5.8	51.5	21.3	0.81	0.50	378
Oilcake, hydraulic-
ally pressed,
Malaysia				83.2	35.6	7.6	11.8	17.2	27.8	2.45	1.11	292
Oilcake, mechanic-
ally extracted,
Tanzania				92.9	44.0	4.8	12.2	11.9	27.1	2.43	1.32	355
Oilcake, mechanic-
ally extracted,
Iraq				91.1	43.7	6.9	17.5	6.3	25.6	3.66	1.71	182
Oilcake, mechanic-
ally extracted,
Israel				90.7	46.4	8.9	13.0	6.6	25.1	2.09	1.10	365
Oil meal, solvent
extracted, Iraq				94.0	44.0	8.2	14.9	1.4	31.5			182
							Digestibility (%)
					Animal		CP	CF	EE	NFE	ME	Ref
Seeds					Sheep		89.8	22.2	94.9	56.0	4.99	512
Oilcake, mechanically
extracted					Sheep		91.0	59.0	88.0	66.0	3.06	365
		Amino acid composition as % of crude protein
Oilcake											Ref	119
Arg	Cys	Gly	His	Ils	Leu	Lys	Met	Phe	Thr	Try	Tyr	Val
12.8	2.1	5.3	2.9	3.6	7.5	2.9	3.1	4.3	3.2	1.4	3.9	4.0