Extrusion, Essential Oils and Fish Feed Optimisation - Advanced Microencapsulation Improves Delivery of Phytogenic Feed Additives
Extrusion, Essential Oils and Fish Feed Optimisation - Advanced Microencapsulation Improves Delivery of Phytogenic Feed Additives
Extrusion, Essential Oils and Fish Feed Optimisation - Advanced Microencapsulation Improves Delivery of Phytogenic Feed Additives
In farmed aquatic species, the benefits of phytogenic feed additives, or botanicals, have been reported in several scientific studies.
Their plant-derived active ingredients (e.g. phenols and flavonoids)
can exert multiple effects in animals, including improvement of feeding
conversion ratio (FCR), digestibility, growth rate, reduction of nitrogen
and phosphorous excretion, improvement of the gut microbiota and
health status.
Encapsulation of phytogenics
Figure 1: Conventional coating (Micro-encapsulation) vs. matrixencapsulation (Digestarom P.E.P. MGE) of essential oils
FEATURE
SGR
(%/day)
WG (%bw/day)
1.76
3.17
1.82
3.40
1.80
3.25
Proven results