29Due to the fact that the use of feed of animal origin in the nutrition of monogastric animals has been limited, an essential problem arose as how to replace a high quality animal protein without adverse effect on animal health and performance. Most European countries are dependent on imported soy, which is a source of protein for poultry and pig diets. The heat treatment of soy is necessary for inactivation of anti-nutritional substances. Moreover, some soy cultivars contain estrogen-like agents (Sommer, 2003). The use of alternative home prepared diets with a high nutritional value and of reasonable price is attractive. Lupine seeds meet these requirements among leguminous plants cultivated in our country.According to a prospective study (Dijkstra et al., 2003) lupine has been included among eight potential vegetable sources of protein for the use in feed and food production. The seeds of sweet lupine cultivars (Lupinus albus, L. angustifolius, L. luteus) contain 28 to 48% crude protein (CP) in dry matter (DM), which depends on the lupine cultivar and
ABSTRACT:The purpose of the present study was to assess the effect of diets for market pigs with 20% inclusion of lupine seeds, cv. Amiga, on the performance, health status, carcass characteristics, fatty acids (FA) profile of meat lipids and nutritional and sensory parameters of meat. Another purpose was to increase the nutritional value of a cereal-lupine diet (E1) by supplementation with lysine, methionine, threonine (E2) or fat (E3) and to perform a comparison with control diets containing animal protein (C1) or soy (C2). The experiments were performed on 50 pigs (50% males, 50% females) with initial body weights of 35.6 ± 2.2 kg, fed isonitrogenic and isoenergetic diets partly ad libitum for 90 days. Feed intake was not adversely affected by lupine inclusion. The daily body weight gain (BWG) was significantly higher (P < 0.05) in group E3 in comparison with the cereal-lupine diet group (E1) and the other groups by 12.6 to 15.9% during the initial 30 days of experiment. The highest BWG (0.88 ± 0.07 kg/kg) during the entire experimental period was obtained with the fat containing diet (E3); that was non-significantly higher by 2.3 to 10.0% in comparison with the other diets. The feed conversion rate was reduced in groups E3 and E2 (2.55 and 2.58 kg/kg BWG) by 3.1 to 7.6% in comparison with groups C1, C2 and E1. No adverse effect of the lupine containing diet was observed on the carcass characteristics or the nutritional quality of the meat. Optimum content of linolenic acid in lupine seeds had a favourable effect on n-6/n-3 polyunsaturated FA ratio in meat lipids of group E3 in comparison with groups C1 and E1 (P < 0.05). By sensory meat analysis, significantly better characteristics were found for texture, juiciness (P < 0.01, P < 0.05) and taste in E3 in comparison with groups C1, C2 and E1. The obtained results indicate that animal and soy protein may be replaced with lupine, tested in the present study, in case a diet is supplemented with amino acids an...