Long-Term Dietary Supplementation with Betaine Improves Growth Performance, Meat Quality and Intramuscular Fat Deposition in Growing-Finishing Pigs

R Fu, H Zhang, D Chen, G Tian, P Zheng, J He, J Yu… - Foods, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study was designed to investigate the effects of dietary betaine supplementation on
growth performance, meat quality and muscle lipid metabolism of growing-finishing pigs …

Changes in hormones, growth factor and lipid metabolism in finishing pigs fed betaine

QC Huang, ZR Xu, XY Han, WF Li - Livestock Science, 2006 - Elsevier
An experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary betaine supplementation on
carcass characteristics, hormones, growth factor and lipid metabolism in finishing pigs. Forty …

Effects of betaine on growth performance and carcass characteristics in growing pigs

DY Yu, ZR Xu, WF Li - Asian-australasian journal of animal sciences, 2004 - animbiosci.org
Ninety six growing pigs (DurocŨLandraceŨJia) were used to investigate the effects of
betaine on growth, nutrient utilization, carcass composition and meat quality at different …

Impact of betaine on pig finishing performance and carcass composition

BV Lawrence, AP Schinckel, O Adeola… - Journal of animal …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of betaine supplementation of
finishing diets on growth performance and carcass characteristics of swine. Experiment 1 …

Effect of dietary betaine on nutrient utilization and partitioning in the young growing feed-restricted pig

I Fernández-Fígares, D Wray-Cahen… - Journal of animal …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of dietary betaine over a range of
concentrations (between 0 and 0.5%) on growth and body composition in young feed …

Effects of dietary betaine supplementation on back fat thickness and serum IGF-1 in late finishing pigs

M Lothong, K Tachampa… - The Thai Journal of …, 2016 - digital.car.chula.ac.th
This study was performed in finishing pigs to investigate the effects of betaine HCl on
carcass fat deposition and lipid metabolism in relation to growth hormone (GH) and insulin …

Effect of betaine diet on growth performance, carcass quality and fat deposition in finishing ningxiang pigs

Y Wang, J Chen, Y Ji, X Lin, Y Zhao - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Excessive fat deposit is one of the major problems in finishing Ningxiang
pigs, and adversely affects the breeding. The study aimed to investigate the effects of diet …

Metabolic, osmoregulatory and nutritional functions of betaine in monogastric animals

A Ratriyanto, R Mosenthin, E Bauer… - … -Australasian Journal of …, 2009 - koreascience.kr
This review focuses on the metabolic and osmoregulatory functions of betaine and its impact
on nutrient digestibility and performance in pigs and poultry. Betaine is the trimethyl …

Effects of betaine on growth, carcass characteristics, pork quality, and plasma metabolites of finishing pigs

JO Matthews, LL Southern, AD Higbie… - Journal of animal …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of dietary betaine (0, 0.125, 0.250, or
0.500%) on growth, carcass traits, pork quality, plasma metabolites, and tissue betaine …

Effects of dietary glycine betaine on growth and pork quality of finishing pigs

HS Yang, JI Lee, ST Joo, GB Park - Asian-Australasian Journal of …, 2009 - koreascience.kr
This study was carried out to compare the growth performance and quality properties of pork
from finishing pigs fed different levels of betaine. A total 120 female pigs (Landrace ${\times} …