Palatability feed additives are ingredients that make the feed appetizing to animals.
More often, feed ingredients render a bitter taste to feed, which is disliked by the animals, thus reducing their feed intake. The reduced feed intake impacts the growth of the animal due to which the quality of meat is also affected. Here, palatability enhancers/additive helps by improving the taste of the feed.
They play a crucial role in maximizing feed intake and favour the digestion of nutrients as most of the compositions contain protein digests, that is, protein hydrolysates produced by enzymatic digestion or fermented ingredients that are prone to faster digestion and absorption. They also help in enhancing the shelf-life of feed and improve its physical appearance, making it more visually appealing to animals. Palatability enhancers, thus, invoke a positive sensory response in animals, which further helps them in increasing intake. Palatability enhancers also find application in pet food to impart a flavor and aroma that is naturally attractive to pets.
Palatability enhancers are an integral part of the meat production industry all over the world. These palatability enhancers are mixed with feed to increase the overall palatability of the feed, thus enhancing animal health and performance.
Palatability is an important determinant of what and how much an animal eats of a certain feed or feed component. Many raw materials from different origins with different levels of nutrients, palatability profiles and anti-nutritional factors are available for the feed industry.
Nuvanto offers wide range of palatability enhancers to ensure the final feed (compound feed, premix, mineral mix, CMR or TMR) is palatable and that feed intake is optimized.
Cattle are extremely sensitive to taste and formulating diets that fit the nutritional and economic requirements of production whilst maintaining acceptable palatability is an ongoing challenge to the ruminant nutritionist. Good diet palatability is essential to achieve target intakes and performance as nutrition can only happen once feed is eaten.
….A cow has 25000 taste buds, Over three times as many as humans!!!
Our palatability solutions improve the palatability of feeds and supplements to make them more acceptable to the animal. It will provide the nutritionist with complete flexibility when formulating rations with the confidence that they will be readily consumed, ensuring nutritional needs and production targets are met with minimum waste.