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PREFERRED TERM

metabolizable energy

TYPE

Product

DEFINITION

Energía neta en alimentos o piensos que está disponible para los seres humanos o animales mediante la digestión y absorción, y se mide como la diferencia entre el contenido de energía bruta y la energía perdida por ser estos digeridos o no.
The net energy in food or feed that is available to humans or animals by digestion and absorption, and measured as the difference between gross energy content and the energy lost as being undigested or indigestible.

BROADER CONCEPT

nutritional characteristics

RELATED CONCEPTS

ALTERNATIVE LABEL

caloric value (physiological)
energy, metabolizable
energy value (physiological)
metabolisable energy
starch equivalent

BELONGS TO GROUP

characteristics of foods and feeds

IN OTHER LANGUAGES

omzetbare energie	Dutch
energia metabolizável	Portuguese
energía metabolizable	Spanish

URI

http://id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C6927

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http://id.cabi.org/cabt/72492	id.cabi.org
http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/17239	lod.nal.usda.gov