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GREAT BRITAIN is short of protein-rich feeding-stuffs; also they are expensive. Laboratory-extracted leaf protein has been shown to contain a useful content of the essential amino-acids1,2. The largest immediate source of leaf in Great Britain is the grasslands. Grass leaf when eaten by ruminants is converted into animal products; but this process is slow and very wasteful. Pigs and poultry make only limited use of grass-leaf protein because of their inability to digest the fibre in grass.
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EYLES, D. Feeding Value to Poultry of Grass Leaf Protein. Nature 169, 668 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/169668a0
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