Effect of excess dietary riboflavin on growth of rainbow trout
Journal of Nutrition
By: S. G. Hughes
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Abstract
Fingerling rainbow trout were fed semipurified diets containing graded levels of supplemental riboflavin (3, 35, 42, 49, 56, 63, 70, 100 and 600 mg/kg of diet) to determine if dietary riboflavin in excess of requirements decreases growth. In three trials with three sizes of fish (mean initial weights, 0.5, 3.2 and 4.3 g) and two water temperatures (8.3° and 15°C), no significant diet-related growth inhibition was detected. The results suggest that rainbow trout, like other animals, are insensitive to excesses of dietary riboflavin and that the growth depression reported by other workers was the result of some other dietary influence or of faulty experimental design.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Effect of excess dietary riboflavin on growth of rainbow trout |
| Series title | Journal of Nutrition |
| DOI | 10.1093/jn/114.9.1660 |
| Volume | 114 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Year Published | 1984 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Contributing office(s) | Leetown Science Center |
| Description | 4 p. |
| First page | 1660 |
| Last page | 1663 |
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