Beneficial Effects of Fermented Sugarcane Residue with Goat Probiotic On Gut Health

APÁS AL; ARENA ME; ELIAS A; GONZALEZ F; GONZALEZ SN

International Journal of Agriculture Innovations and Research

Timeline Publication Pvt. Ltd.

Año: 2015 vol. 3 p. 1703 - 1710

Sugarcane is rich in dietary fibers that havebeneficial properties in gastrointestinal tract. In addition thesugarcane is well known for its protective role in mammalianhealth. However, the sugarcane industry produces vastquantities of residues. Sugarcane blunting (waste producedby the sugarcane industry) was fermented under differentconditions: using native microbiota (control), using specificgoat probiotics, including Lactobacillus reuteri DDL19(Treatment Nº1), Lactobacillus alimentarius DDL 48(Treatment Nº2), Enterococcus faecium DDE 39 (TreatmentNº3), Bifidobacterium bifidum DDBA (Treatment Nº4) and aprobiotic mixture containing equal amounts of the fourprobiotics (Treatment N°5). The fermented sugarcane is asynbiotic supplement for goats because it contains goatprobiotic as well as dietary fibers considered as prebiotic.Firstly, the ensilages were microbiologically examined andthen administered simultaneously to different batches of sixgoats each immediately after weaning. We evaluated the fivedifferent treatments during three consecutive periods ofseven days each (ingest-repose), starting immediately afterweaning. The best results were obtained with the probioticmixtures of strains belonging to different genera and species.The ingestion of the Treatment 5 was able to diminishcoliforms and enhance the beneficial Bifidobacterium andlactic acid bacteria by at least one logarithmic unit withrespect to the control. Furthermore, the incidence of diarrheain this experimental group was lower than the control group.The intestinal flora was improved in all cases in which sugarcane fermented with the probiotic strains was consumed. Theresidue is a good vehicle for probiotic strains, providingsugars and dietary fibers in a period of drought and ingeographical areas of poor pastures. In this work, we use anindustrial solid waste (highly polluting) as synbioticsupplement food for goats.