ReviewTropical animal health and production2020
The prebiotic potential of brewers' spent grain on livestock's health: a review.
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- Non-targeted metabolomics reveals liver metabolome changes in broiler chickens fed diets supplemented with fermented brewer's grain.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Metabolomic and metagenomic insights into WFBG-mediated regulation of gut microbiota and metabolism in broilers.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Impact of Wet Brewer's Grain Supplementation in Bovine Dietary on Fatty Acids Profile, Vitamin E and Sensory Properties of Fresh Cheese.Food science of animal resources · 2025Article
- Dietary wet fermented Brewer's grains modulate hepatic metabolism in pullets.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Determination and prediction of the energy content and amino acid digestibility of brewer's spent grain for growing pigs.Journal of animal science · 2025Article
- Serum metabolomics reveal the mechanisms by which fermented brewer's spent grains promote intestinal development in white-feathered broilers.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
- Effective Degradation of Brewer Spent Grains by a Novel Thermostable GH10 Xylanase.Applied biochemistry and biotechnology · 2024Article
- Therapeutic Potential of Fungal Polysaccharides in Gut Microbiota Regulation: Implications for Diabetes, Neurodegeneration, and Oncology.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Brewers' spent grain as fish feed ingredient: Evaluation of bio-safety and analysis of its impact on gut bacteria ofCurrent research in microbial sciences · 2024Article
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- Conversion of brewers' spent grain into proteinaceous animal feed using solid state fermentation.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Article
- How water-soluble saccharides drive the metabolism of lactic acid bacteria during fermentation of brewers' spent grain.Microbial biotechnology · 2022Article
- Fluorescence activated cell sorting and fermentation analysis to study rumen microbiome responses to administered live microbials and yeast cell wall derived prebiotics.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
- The Potential of Brewer's Spent Grain in the Circular Bioeconomy: State of the Art and Future Perspectives.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Review
- Regulation of the cecal microbiota community and the fatty liver deposition by the addition of brewers' spent grain to feed of Landes geese.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Antioxidant Activity of Mushroom Extracts/Polysaccharides-Their Antiviral Properties and Plausible AntiCOVID-19 Properties.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Bioprocessed Brewers' Spent Grain Improves Nutritional and Antioxidant Properties of Pasta.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Screening and Identification ofFrontiers in veterinary science · 2021Article
- Can medicinal mushrooms have prophylactic or therapeutic effect against COVID-19 and its pneumonic superinfection and complicating inflammation?Scandinavian journal of immunology · 2021Review
- Dectin-1-Mediated Production of Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines Induced by Yeast β-Glucans in Bovine Monocytes.Frontiers in immunology · 2021Article
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Abstract
The increasing interest from the feed as a source of energy towards specific nutrient-yielding compounds in feeds is amongst the latest developments from scientific and industrial communities. Apart from brewers' spent grain (BSG) being relatively inexpensive feed source, nutritious with high crude protein and minerals, recent studies have explored its potential as a source of prebiotics. Prebiotics are certain feeds that are comprised of non-digestive polysaccharides that can be fed to animals and modulate the balance and activities of microbial populations in the gut. The BSG contains arabinoxylans and β-glucans whereby when consumed by animals, they promote the activity of beneficial bacteria particularly species from three genera of Bifidobacterium, Enterococcus, and Lactobacillus. The increased degradation of fibrous feed accelerates the production of short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) which serve as the primary energy sources for the anaerobic microbes. This elevated concentration of SCFA stimulates numerous physio-biological functions which include intestinal nutrients absorption, glucose balance, improvement of immunity, lipid metabolism, and suppression of pathogens such as Salmonella and Escherichia coli. To capitalize on the prebiotic potential of BSG, certain considerations need to be well taken care of and these include possible microbial dysfunctions such as rumen acidosis, different responses rates of animals due to variations in health status, age, and species as well as feed safety issues especially mycotoxin contamination which can jeopardize its inherited prebiotic benefits.
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