The effect of raw soya beans upon the digestion of proteins and upon the function of the pancreas of intact chickens and of chickens with ileostomies

Abstract

Osborne & Mendel (1917) showed that raw soya beans (RS) had a low nutritive value for rats, and that cooking them for 3 h greatly increased this value. They attributed this increase in nutritive value to an increase in food consumption and to improved nitrogen absorption.