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Abstract

Two pearl millet cultivars
namely Gadarif and Gazeera were used in this study. The effect of soaking,
debranning, dry heating and germination of the grains before and after
fermentation on protein content and digestibility was investigated.
The effect of processing treatments on the protein content was fluctuated
and varied between the cultivars. For both cultivars germination of
the grains increased the protein content and digestibility except course
ground grains. For both cultivars fermentation of the germinated and
course ground grains increased the protein content while fermentation
of other treated grains fluctuated between the cultivars. The protein
digestibility of the treated grains after fermentation was greatly improved.
For both cultivars fermentation of the germinated grains gave higher
protein digestibility 90 compared to all other treatments.

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