Manna-Pro Rice Bran - the Max-E Glo, states that rice bran is high in vitamin E. Is this true for all rice bran, or does the E have to be added?
I can’t find anything definitive via google!
TIA!
Here is a nutritional table for rice bran. There is some Vitamin E. I’ll leave you to do the calculations on whether that works out to a useful amount for a horse.
http://calorielab.com/foods/rice/ric…ude/21/20060/1
If an ingredient is used as a human food, the best nutrition analysis will be on human nutrition sites (flax, bran, molasses, etc) not livestock sites.
This resource might be useful in translating information.
https://www.thecalculatorsite.com/ar…-ui-to-mcg.php
Anyhow find the nutrition information for the product you are interested in and if the product has way more vitamin e than straight rice bran, it must be supplemented. Find the ingredients list and it will tell you if vitamin e is added.
Googling around I don’t see straight rice bran being suggested as a source of equine vitamin e. I imagine the fat and Phosphorus levels would be high if you tried to feed enough to get a high dose if vitamin e.
Max-E-Glo is stabilized with the typical mixed tocopherols, aka various forms of vitamin E
I was reading something on this last night, I can’t find the site, but will keep checking. What I read indicated there is a big difference in shelf stability of stabilized vs non-stabilized rice bran… what I understood was that some rice beans are stabilized with vitamin e and other antioxidants as part of the stabilization process. If I can find where I read that, I’ll post the link here.
Yes, that’s the purpose of the stabilization - increase shelf life, typically by a lot. Seeds and grains last almost indefinitely while the hulls are intact, but once you break them, they start to degrade fairly quickly. That’s where stabilization comes in - preservative.
I had no idea vitamin e had this effect. I thought of it as being quite unstable. I have now learned something!
I found the nutritional info on the Manno Pro product - 50 IU per lb. Not enough to get excited over. And certainly not enough to justify the price tag.
So, if a product does not list “mixed tocopherols”, then what is being used to stabilize it? @JB, any idea?
