Nutrients

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This page is part of the Setup, one of three main sections of Tower Grove Feed. The other two are the Workshop and the Workbench. For an overview of the Setup go to Setup overview.

Nutrients Overview

This page presents a list of nutrients that are available at the current control level.

A Nutrient is anything measurable that an ingredient contributes to a diet, such as protein or fat. The common definition of the word 'nutrient' suggests that nutrient is something beneficial. For purposes of formulating a diet, even harmful substances can be regarded as nutrients, as long as there are measurements for them. In a formula, you can specify a maximum amount. You can use the maximum amount to restrict the quantity of something harmful in a diet. In the broad sense that a nutrient is anything measurable that an ingredient brings, cost could be thought of as a kind of nutrient. Tower Grove Feed optimizes for cost when it solves a formula. In the future other goals such as growth or health could be the target instead.

You can create a new nutrient by clicking the New Nutrient button.

Setup overview

The Setup area provides access to the background information needed to set up and a solve formula. In most cases, you visit the Setup area most frequently when you first begin to use Tower Grove Feed. You might return occasionally to add a level,a user, a new nutrient. By default, when you click on the Setup tab, you arrive at the Nutrients page. If you arrive at another page, it is because Tower Grove Feed remembers the last Setup page you were on. You can also maintain species, levels, ingredient types, and control level defaults. You can also get to the copy/move facility.

The list of Setup tabs follows:

Setup tabs

Nutrients

The list of nutrients that you have access to at your current control level.

Species

The list of species that you have access to at your current control level.

Levels

The list of all levels that you have access to with your user ID. These levels constitute the set of roles you can adopt. From the Control levels page you can add new levels and, if you have administrative rights, new users.

Ingr Types

The list of ingredient types that you have access to at your current control level. Ingredient types classify ingredients into categories that help determine the order of mixing.

Workbench

Takes you to last formula you were working on in the Workbench.