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The effect of including ragi husk in the diet, at the 8 per cent level, on growth and body composition of pair-fed albino rats was studied. Even on equal food intake by both control as well as the experimental animals, the incorporation of ragi husk promoted better growth, nitrogen retention and protein efficiency ratio. Protein content of the carcass and liver of rats fed diets containing ragi husk was higher than the control group. The growth response of rats fed ragi husk appeared to increase with the content of nitrogen in the husk.
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Kanchana, S., Shurpalekar, K.S. Effect of incorporating ragi (Eleusine Coracana) husk in semisynthetic diets. Plant Food Hum Nutr 33, 279–285 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01094753
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