Soybean meal (SBM) is a superb amino acid and energy source for pig diets, but another important dimension is emerging in relation to health-promotion in humans and food animals. Soybeans contain an abundance of functional molecules (FM) in the non-nutritive fraction (Sharma et al., 2019), as well as bioactive peptides that arise during digestion of major SBM proteins (Chatterjee et al., 2018). There is considerable information on these in relation to human health, but research with food animals is in the early stages of development (Smith and Dilger, 2018).

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