The Fruit Peel of Pineapple as Alternative Feed

Processing of pineapples into pineapple juice produce waste products such as fruit peel and flesh squeezed fruit fiber. The waste volume reached 85% of the weight of fresh fruit. Its use as a ruminant feed will provide added value as well as to the development of commercial livestock production business in favor of a national meat production. Fruit peel and flesh squeezed pineapple fiber is a potential energy source for ruminants. The content of fiber were relatively high allowing the material used to replace grass as feed basis.

 

Pineapple waste is a mixture of fruit peel and flesh squeezed fruit fiber as waste products from the processing of fresh fruit into pineapple juice. As a feed ingredient, pineapple peel can be used as much as 10-20% in the feed. The use of more than 20% can reduce body weight. Growth response of goats fed pineapple skin is fair. The use of these materials resulted in daily gain between 60-70g with feed conversion between 10-14.

Source : Research Institute for Goat Production