Physicochemical properties of rabbit meat supplemented with foliage of Gliricidia sepium and palm-press fiber of Elaeis guineensis

According to different studies, rabbit meat has high nutritional value and plays an active role on human health due to its dietary properties. A way to comparatively evaluate the effect of supplementing commercial balanced feed (CBF) with mataraton ( Gliricidia sepium ) foliage and palm-press fiber ( Elaeis guineensis ) in the nutritional quality of meat rabbit ( Oryctolagus cuniculus ), a research was conducted with an experimental design of randomized blocks with three treatments (diets) and three replications (blocks) with sampling three replicates per repetition, where mestizos 27 male rabbits were used during the post-weaning growth, divided into three treatments: a control group (T0), animals supplied only with CBF, and two supplemented treatments with mataraton foliage and palm-press fiber at 30 and 10% (T1), and 10 and 30% (T2) proportions, respectively, to later compare the effect of diet on the quality parameters of the meat from these animals. Upon completion of this preliminary investigation, samples of meat from different animals in treatment were evaluated for their physicochemical properties [pH, titratable acidity, and water holding capacity (WHC)] found that, according to analysis of variance, no significant differences (p > 0.05) for pH (5.64 to 5.70 ), titratable acidity (0.52 to 0.58%), and WHC (18.15 to 20.46%), indicating that regardless of the diet used, supplementing CBF with mataraton/palm-press fiber or not, the rabbit meats obtained are similar as food in terms of these physicochemical properties. These results suggest that tropical agronomic materials used in this study, could be an alternative for the production of rabbit meat for human consumption. De acuerdo con diferentes estudios, la carne de conejo tiene un alto valor nutricional y juega un rol activo en la salud humana debido a sus propiedades dietéticas. A manera de evaluar comparativamente el efecto de la suplementación del alimento balanceado comercial (ABC) con follaje de mataratón ( Gliricidia sepium ) y cachaza de palma aceitera ( Elaeis guineensis ) en la calidad nutricional de la carne de conejo ( Oryctolagus cuniculus ), se realizó una investigación con un diseño experimental de bloques al azar con tres tratamientos (dietas) y tres repeticiones (bloques) con muestreo de tres réplicas por repetición, donde se utilizaron 27 conejos machos mestizos durante el período de crecimiento post destete, divididos en tres tratamientos: un control (T0), alimentados sólo con A