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.

Implications for pig health and physiology. A targeted review of the functional compounds in SBM that may be involved in its disease-mitigating effects in swine.

SBM depletion impaired growth in pigs despite restoration of all essential amino acids and non-essential amino acid nitrogen.