The "quality" of a given food item depends on the morphological adaptations and physiological requirements of the animal For ruminants the digestion of feeds by the microbiome is essential, therefore food selection is an indirect process. As a result, determining of the drivers behind food selection (e.g. plant quality) is a challenging issue. Nevertheless, some general assumptions about quality can be made:
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Caroline Stolter (2018) studied this question.