The glyceride fatty acids of forage grasses

Abstract

ALTHOUGH grasses constitute the chief food of most herbivorous animals we believe we are correct in stating that no knowledge exists of the amount of true fats and phosphatides which they contain. The agricultural chemist, it is true, generally determines the "ether extract" when analysing samples of grasses, but it has been realised since the pioneer work of Kellner that this value does not by any means represent true fat, and in nutrition experiments it is generally converted into the corresponding "starch equivalent."