“…Recently, the intrinsic molecular structure of nutrients has been proposed to a potential predictor to estimate nutrient supply and availability for ruminants. The relationship between nutrient inherent molecular structure and the nutritive values has been reported in several published studies (Khan et al, 2015, Sun et al, 2018, Tosta et al, 2021, Xin et al, 2021. The attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy is a rapid, nondestructive analytical approach to study nutrient molecular structure and hence its utilization and availability (Khan et al, 2015;Rodríguez-Espinosa et al, 2020;Tosta et al, 2021;Xin et al, 2021).…”