In the present study, diets contained up to 134 g starch/kg from field pea that replaced up to 11 g starch/kg from SBM and 55 g starch/kg from wheat. The C-type starch in field pea differs from A-type starch in cereal grains
Ileal digestibility ofstarch from raw field pea (P. sativum) was as high as 94%
and less than 2% of starch was lost infaeces
Thus, starch in field pea is not digested completely in the small intestine and up to 20% of starch isfermented in the large intestine of pigs
However, starch fermentation instead of starch digestion is lessefficient energetically for the pig
The reduced calculated diet NE value based on measured DE value and macronutrient composition with increasinginclusion of field pea, in contrast to equal formulated diet NE value, indicated that the NE value for field pea used for diet