Sentences with phrase «ruminant animals like»

The stomachs of ruminant animals like cows and lamb produce this fat naturally, but unlike artificial hydrogenated fats, conjugated linoleic acid is very healthy.

However, trans fats are also naturally present in smaller amounts in body or milk fat from ruminant animals like cows, sheep and goats.

Ruminant animals like cows and sheep convert K1 into K2 in their stomachs, but humans don't convert K1 to K2 as efficiently.

Not exact matches

It also has contributed to key insights about how animal behavior can be harnessed to improve the condition of the land, especially in regions like his native Zimbabwe with long dry seasons during which ruminants are conveyers of soil fertility and moisture.

The researchers looked at domestic and international trade of corn, rice, soy and wheat, along with such livestock products as ruminant (animals like cattle, goats and sheep that subsist on plant matter), pork and poultry.

They are primarily produced by bacteria in animals with ruminant stomachs, like cows, goats, and sheep.

All types of mammal milk, including cow's milk and human milk, also contain another type of casein called kappa casein, but kappa casein comes in two very different forms — a «ruminant» form (for animals with more than one stomach, like cows) and a «non-ruminant» form (for animals with only one stomach, like humans).

By itself, liver from land animals, especially ruminants like cattle and lamb, is very rich in vitamin A, 64 while livers from both ruminants and poultry animals have only about 12 IU of vitamin D for every 100 grams.65

Small ruminants like sheep, goats and camelids round out our large animal practice.

Small ruminants like sheep and goats are especially vulnerable to the effects of intestinal parasites, because the worm burden increases quickly on the close - grazed pastures on which these animals are raised.

«Interestingly, we also found that a shift away from ruminant meats like beef — which have impacts three to 10 times greater than other animal - based foods — towards nutritionally similar foods like pork, poultry or fish would have significant benefits, both for the environment and for human health.

Both products work by killing or stifling the «bad» bacteria that compete with cows for food by lingering in their guts — as well as those of other four - stomached animals like sheep and goats (all called ruminants).

Indeed, according to the EPA, so - called «enteric fermentation» in cows and other ruminant animals, like sheep and goats, contributed 26 percent of the country's total emissions of methane, a hard - hitting greenhouse gas with much greater short term warming consequences than carbon dioxide does (though the latter packs a far greater long - term punch).