Spaghetti Squash.....should I cook it first?

[digitS']

The mechanical process of extruding crumbles and pellets heats the feed. Poultry feed is often heat conditioned prior to processing. Preconditioning temperatures are usually high enough for pasteurization but during the processing, temperatures go even higher. (10 page pdf, Journal of Applied Poultry Research)

Not all commercial feeds are prepared this way.

Steve

 

[digitS']

Regarding vitamin loss during cooking: the linked article from Michigan State U Ag Engineering looked specifically at loss of beta-carotene during extrusion.

They found that approximately 13% of the beta-carotene was lost during extrusion at 266ºF. Probably, the longer the food was held at a cooking temperature, the more beta-carotene would be lost. Other vitamins would be degraded at varying rates or they may not be lost at all.

Against this loss must be weighed the increased digestibility of the cooked food.

Steve

 

[picklespickles]

wow. i have been sick and am just waking up. so maybe this is a joke and i just don't get it.

i can see if you want to cook your chickens food. it's your life and your business, but acting like everyone else should is bananas to me.

as far as people being spoiled, all i can assume is that you're speaking of yourself.

 

[Churkenduse]

Hi pickles,

Sorry you were sick I hope you feel better soon. The question was about spaghetti squash, should we cook it or not and having fun with it, then it went way off course as it usually does.

Microwave cooking is unhealthy because in the microwave process, vital nutrients needed by the body are destroyed. When we eat microwaved food we are essentially eating dead food. It might taste good but there is no nutritional value.

According to a study done by Hans Hertel and Bernard H. Blanc of the Swiss Federal Institute of Biochemistry and the University Institute of Biochemistry from information reported at (www.relfe.com/microwave.html) microwaving causes a "violent" change in food molecules

You see any one can come up with any result they want if they just look.

That is why I disconnected my micro.


I just would like to know why everyone is so negative .​

 

[digitS']

Well, my point was that if you feed a commercial product, it is very likely that you are feeding your birds a cooked food.

The manufacturers are concerned about vitamin loss especially since they may need to put vitamins back in the products to make up for loss. One of the points the Michigan State researchers were making was that the heat from processing the product was degrading the particular vitamin they were studying. However, the loss was only 13%.

There are a number of reasons why feed is processed the way it is. And, the conventional way of doing something is not wrong just because it is conventional. If squash was a part of a commercial feed, it would be cooked.

Steve

 

[Churkenduse]

You are off topic:

The question was "spaghetti squash, should I cook it first?" not extruded pellets. I was taking into account the processing of their feed.

I will spell it out; as far as the fresh food we provide, I don't think we should cook anything that can be eaten fresh as to allow for the utmost obsorption of vitamins etc.

That is my opinion, and ya can't argue with an opinion.

Rosemarie

“I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

 

[digitS']

Let's leave the subject of cooking off to one side and since the subject of vitamins is on topic just look at that in a non-cooking sort of way:

I guess chickens are lactose intolerance just as I am. Milk contains all these vitamins beneficial to critters. All that A, B, D, E, and K, and supplemented vitamin D aren't going to do either me or the birds one tiny bit of good if everything passes thru as fast as "grass thru a goose."

Soy and other legumes such as kidney beans and lentils have substances that interfere with digestion. The hens can "eat" them raw but that isn't going to do them much good. All those B vitamins and iron available in those legumes and even the carbs and proteins probably won't add up to a "hill of beans" for the nutrition of the birds.

Mixing my metaphors and heck, I don't know whether I'm on topic or off anymore. Probably, the original poster has lost all interest anyway.

Steve