Sentences with phrase «to digest cellulose»

1 The most beneficial meat to veg ratio for the average dog is 75 % muscle meat & bone, (including 10 % organ meats and bit of extra bone to make up for the loss of calcium rich blood), and 25 % ground or juiced vegetables (dogs can not digest cellulose so whole veggies will just come out the same way they went in).

Analysis of panda poop, presented at this week's ACS meeting, has shown that enzymes from the bacteria are excellent at digesting the cellulose in grasses, woods and stalks - and at everyday conditions, potentially opening the door for new biofuels that don't compete for land with crops for food.

Mushrooms digest cellulose and transform it into chitin, the same material that insect shells are made from.

This narrow, muscular tube attached to the large intestine served as a special area to digest cellulose when the human diet consisted more of plant matter than animal protein.

Generally, only cellulases from bacteria and fungi, produced as a cellulase enzyme complex, are able to completely digest cellulose into its constituent - Dglucose molecules.

With both, ensure veggies are blended well as they do not easily digest cellulose.

- 30 LU Lipase digests fatty acids allowing the pet to absorb Omega - 3 fatty acids and Vitamins A, D, E and K. Cellulase (Tricoderma Longbranchiatum)- 10 CMCU Cellulase digests cellulose, reducing the bulking effects of fibrous foods.

Mammals can not digest cellulose on their own and need special bacteria in their large intestines to do so.

It is this rather short length of their gut that prevents them from efficiently digesting cellulose - or fiber - rich foods.

Boring clams are one of the few marine animals that can digest the cellulose in wood.

Like termites, these clams have specialized symbiotic bacteria in their bodies that help them digest cellulose.

Cows have the ability to digest cellulose — the carbohydrate that strengthens the cell walls of plants — because of «fibrolytic ruminal bacteria,» which represent just a few of the hundreds of species of microbes in the digestive systems of ruminants.

There are clear differences in the digestion of ruminants from other mammals, since they not only digest the plant matter but also the bacteria that live in the gut and digest the cellulose.

In recent work, Brian Fox and colleagues at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin - Madison characterized glycoside hydrolases, enzymes that digest cellulose and can be used to turn plants such as switch grass into biofuels.

These organisms allow their hosts to digest cellulose.»

Because dogs (and humans) lack the ability to digest cellulose, the structural fiber in plants, most vegetables are best cooked or pulverized in a food processor to get their nutritional benefits.

It is true that like humans, dogs can not digest cellulose — a single structural carbohydrate used by plants to form stalks and seed coats.