Week 1
Nutrients
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Introduction
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- Optimal productivity requires appropriate amounts and proportions
- Nutrition
- Study of processes in which an animal consumes, digests, absorbs, and metabolizes feedstuff components to promote maintenance and productive functions
- Nutrients
- Specific elements or compounds digested, absorbed, and metabolized to support life’s processes
- Species specific
- Physiological state specific
- Six fundamental nutrients
- Water
- Carbohydrates (CHO)
- Proteins
- Lipids
- Minerals
- Vitamins
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