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Susan E. Garlinghouse, D.V.M. wrote:

> I've been out of touch for awhile, but wanted to add a short comment
> regarding the abstracts about beet pulp being a modest mineral chelator.
> Yes, it is, almost certainly due to its oxalate content.  Oxalates do that,
> they tend to bind to various minerals and make them relatively unavailable
> for absorption into the bloodstream.  Although it's been known for a long
> time the action oxalates have on mineral availability, and it's also been
> known that beet pulp has a moderate oxalate content, no one had previously
> put together the two.  Though it wasn't a big stretch to come to that
> conclusion.
>  
What minerals do they chelate and how rapid is the cleation process? My 
first though with endurance horses is selenium. Probably the worse thing 
to happen to an endurance horse on a ride is for large amounts of beet 
pulp fed by a lot of people cleating and denying the use of an important 
mineral such as selenium. In general people don't supplement selenium on 
a ride - where they might feed alfalfa.

Truman
--

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite 
of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."    Niels Bohr 
-- Nobel Laureate, Physics




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