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Digestible organic matter

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-001857

A percentage of energy and protein in forages/feed expressed as organic matter (DOM) intake minus fecal dry matter divided by dry matter intake times 100.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-001857
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectHuman Nutrition, Food Safety and Quality
AbbreviationDOM
ReferencesTaken in part from: National Range and Pasture Handbook; USDA; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (CC BY 4.0)
See alsoNutritive value; Digestible dry matter
TranslationsSpanish: materia orgánica digerible
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-001857",
  "term": "Digestible organic matter",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "A percentage of energy and protein in forages/feed expressed as organic matter (DOM) intake minus fecal dry matter divided by dry matter intake times 100.",
  "abbreviation": "DOM",
  "subject": "Human Nutrition, Food Safety and Quality",
  "see_also": [
    "nutritive value",
    "digestible dry matter"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Taken in part from: National Range and Pasture Handbook; USDA",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "materia orgánica digerible"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/digestible-organic-matter/"
}

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