digestability

digest +‎ -ability

digestability (usually uncountable, plural digestabilities)

1. Quality or degree of being digestable.
   • 2015 July 31, “Illumina MiSeq Phylogenetic Amplicon Sequencing Shows a Large Reduction of an Uncharacterised Succinivibrionaceae and an Increase of the Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii Clade in Feed Restricted Cattle”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     There have been numerous studies spanning several decades on the effects of feed restriction on rumen fermentation activity and these generally show that as long as maintenance requirements are met, as was the case in group R, there is a negative relationship between level of feed intake and digestability.