Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Incorporated

Fuminobu Yoshimi

Hiroaki Tamatani

Kazuo Sato

Kiyoshi Mizushima

Sohei Morita

Kazuo Takahashi

An additive for stock feeds containing decomposition products of chicory roots in which the total content of polysaccharides and inulooligosaccharides of tri- and higher saccharides obtained by decomposing the chicory roots is 40% by weight or more of the total solids content and is 80% by weight or more of the total saccharides. The stock feed preferably contains 0.1 to 10% by weight of the additive. The additive is prepared by a process which comprises the steps of chopping and then heating/drying chicory roots in order to form chicory flakes, and grinding the chicory flakes, or by a process which comprises the step of enzymatically decomposing the chicory roots without an extraction step.

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Hokkaido, Japan

Fuminobu Yoshimi