UM Todaycanola plastics – UM Today https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca Your Source for University of Manitoba News Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:13:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Canola Digest: Stronger canola plastics, enhanced canola fibre and more https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/canola-digest-stronger-canola-plastics-enhanced-canola-fibre-and-more/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/canola-digest-stronger-canola-plastics-enhanced-canola-fibre-and-more/#respond Tue, 05 Mar 2024 14:20:15 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=193412 Canola Digest: Stronger canola plastics, enhanced canola fibre and more]]> Anna Rogiewicz, nutritional biochemist at the University of Manitoba, demonstrated the potential of canola meal fibre in poultry nutrition. Previous work by fellow University of Manitoba researcher Bogdan Slominski showed that canola meal could be fed to poultry at inclusion rates of 15 to 20 per cent with no loss in performance compared to soybean meal. U of M researchers, including Rogiewicz and Slominski, took the research a step further, exploring options to make better use of the large fibre components of canola meal.

“In animal nutrition, when something goes wrong with canola meal in diets, people say it’s because of the fibre,” Rogiewicz says. But fibre isn’t necessarily bad. We just need to understand it better, she says.

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