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Utilisation of Roasted Guar Korma as
alternative for fishmeal and soybean meal in
shrimp diets

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Utilisation of Roasted Guar Korma

as alternative for fishmeal and soybean meal in shrimp diets
by Eric De Muylder1, Diana Pablos2, Milivoj Rubcic2 and Leon Claessens3

oasted Guar Korma is a high

protein raw material, obtained
after extraction of Guar gum from
the seeds of the leguminous plant
Cyamopsis tetragonoloba. It is cleaned and
roasted after the gum extraction to remove
anti-nutritional factors present in korma,
such as trypsin inhibitor, improving its nutritional values and total digestibility.
The product is obtained without added

soybean meal and 50 per cent Chilean Fish

meal to obtain the same protein levels in all
feeds.

observe that the feed with 10 RG has a little

less growth, and this difference is statistically
different.

Shrimp trial

The shrimp trial was conducted at the

CreveTec-AFT Research station in Venray.
The trial started with shrimp (Litopenaeus
vannamei, Shrimp Improvement Systems) of
+2,5 g and lasted for 4 weeks.
There are 4 replicates for each diet, so 12

Table 1: Composition of Roasted Guar Korma

Crude Protein

55%

Crude Fat

7%

Moisture

6%

Crude Fiber

3%

Ash content

6%

Amino acids (as % of crude Protein)

Methionine

1,105%

Cysteine

1,278%

Lysine

4,208%

Threonine

2,817%

Arginine

12,744%

Isoleucine

2,915%

Leucine

5,367%

Valine

3,357%

Histidine

2,450%

Phenylalanine

3,734%

Table 2: Composition of test diets

REF

RG5

RG10

Chilean fish meal

25

22,5

20

Squid liver powder

Hemoglobin powder

34,8

34,8

34,8

20

17,5

15

Raw Material :

chemicals or preservatives and is completely

GMO free, which can be an important factor
to replace soybean meal.
Roasted Guar Korma is thus a competitive
alternative for soybean meal, but there is little
information about its use in Aquafeeds.

Experiment:

3 experimental diets were produced: one

reference diet, a diet with 5 per cent Roasted
Guar Korma and a diet wiht 10 per cent
Roasted Guar Korma. Feeds are produced
with a pellet mill on a 2 mm die, using
preconditioning with steam (>90C) and
postconditioning (>90C) during 20 minutes.
Roasted Gur Korma replaced 50 per cent

tanks of 150 l in total. Each tank received 30

shrimp. All tanks are connected to a bigger
tank. This way, all tanks have the same water
quality. Water quality in the big tanks is maintained with bioflocs.
Feed gift is adapted daily according to
the average weight of shrimp, biomass and
expected growth.
Each week, shrimp were counted and
weighed together to have average weight and
total biomass.

Results:

Initially, growth of feeds with RG were

showing better growth, but this did not
continue during the whole 4 weeks. We can

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Wheat flour
Soybean meal

Soyalecithin

Rice bran

1,2

1,2

1,2

Fish oil

0,9

0,9

0,9

Wheat Gluten

Premix

10

100

100

100

Crude Protein

38,26

38,26

38,26

Lipids

7,08

7,08

7,08

Roasted Guar Korma

Total

FEATURE
The FCR was statistically higher for the
feed with 10 per cent RG, but differences
are very small and all FCR observed are very
good.

Conclusions

Table 3. Average weight

Day

14

21

28

Ref

2,523 a

3,423

4,690

6,900

8,908 b

RG5

2,591 a

3,516

4,774

6,933

8,938 b

RG10

2,498 a

3,522

4,665

6,599

8,484 a

total

Ref

0,899 a

1,267

2,210

2,007

6,385 a

RG5

0,925 a

1,258

2,160

2,005

6,347 a

RG10

1,024 a

1,143

1,933

1,885

5,985 b

Table 4. Growth
Week

We can safely conclude that 5 per cent

Roasted Guar Korma can replace 2,5 per
cent soybean meal and 2,5 per cent fish meal
in feeds for Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei),
which is an important result, because it will
be an important cost saving for the shrimp
feed producer. Also 10 per cent inclusion
rate is possible, but then there might be a
very low effect on growth and FCR. Roasted
Guar Korma is also a valuable alternative for
soybean meal in case the producer wants to
guarantee GMO free production.

About the authors:

by Eric De Muylder1, Diana Pablos2,

Milivoj Rubcic2 and Leon Claessens3
1CreveTec, Heirbaan 56, 1740 Ternat,
Belgium, eric@crevetec.be
2 Pacta Srl, Via Lametta, 146- 41010
Limidi di Soliera, Italy, info@pactasrl.
com

Table 5. FCR
Week

total

Ref

1,106

1,040

0,711

1,081

0,943 a

RG5

1,211

1,154

0,762

1,135

1,011 ab

RG10

0,980

1,159

0,835

1,101

1,004 b

3AFT,

Poststraat 8, 5801 BC Venray,

Netherlands, info@aquaculture-ft.com

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