food conversion ratio

British

noun

a ratio expressing the weight of food required to produce a unit gain in the live weight of an animal

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As such, after studying more than 4,600 Burmese and reticulated pythons on commercial farms in Vietnam and Thailand, researchers found the snakes had a more efficient food conversion ratio than salmon, pigs, cows, chicken and crickets.

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