Application of Pentosan Research to Feed Industry

As the main component of non-starch polysaccharides in feed stuff,pentosan is the most part of anti-nutritional components in livestock and poultry feed,but also the evaluation indicator of feed stuff performance and effect of enzyme preparations.In order to promote scientific use of non-conventional feed stuff and pentosanase,the latest research progress on pentosan can be used in feed industry was reviewed,physical and chemical properties,distribution,methods of content measurement and anti-nutritional effects were described in detail.