Effects of alternative legume seeds on Barbaresca lamb meat quality

Abstract

In recent years a renewed interest towards the use of local legume seeds in animal nutrition was raising in Mediterranean areas. Conventional feedstuffs such as maize and soybean and animal by-products, the former widely diffused as genetically modified organisms (GMO) and the latter related to “mad cow disease” produced significative changes in public perceptions, justifying a dramatic increase of the use of alternative protein and energy sources such as legume seeds (peas, faba beans, chickpeas) (Hanbury et al., 2000)...

Keywords

• legume seeds, lamb, Barbaresca, meat quality.