Methods for dietary fiber, neutral detergent fiber, and nonstarch polysaccharides in relation to animal nutrition.

Standardization of procedures for nitrogen fractionation of ruminant feeds

Carbohydrate and lignin contents of plant materials used in animal feeding

Creating a System for Meeting the Fiber Requirements of Dairy Cows

Dietary fibre and fibre-rich by-products of food processing: Characterisation, technological functionality and commercial applications: A review

A rapid procedure for determining cellwall constituents of plants consista of the determination of the fiber insoluble in neutral detergent and is applicable to all feedstuffs. The standardization of the method is based on a nutritional concept which defines fiber as insoluble vegetable matter which is indigestible by proteolytic and diastatic enzymes and which cannot be utilized except by microbial fennentation in the digestive tracts of animais.

R. H. Wine

Papers

Use of Detergents in the Analysis of Fibrous Feeds. IV. Determination of Plant Cell-Wall Constituents

Determination of lignin and cellulose in acid-detergent fiber with permanganate.

Estimation of the true digestibility of forages by the in vitro digestion of cell walls.