Overview of nutritional feed additives and characteristics of cinnamaldehyde

Feed additives are substances that are added to feedstuffs in trace amounts (mostly 0.5% or less) for the purpose of supplementing the nutrition of livestock, promoting their growth, improving feed efficiency, maintaining and promoting health, and preventing the decline of feed quality. Feed additives that only promote growth, improve feed efficiency, and maintain and promote health are called non-nutritive feed additives.

The non-nutritive feed additives commonly used for economical animals to promote growth are classified into antibacterial agents, bacteriophages, enzymes, chemical compounds, hormones, and the like, depending on the nature of their effects.

With the expansion of feeding scales and the increasing difficulty in disease management, the use of antimicrobial agents has become more and more important, and the trend of abuse has gradually become increasingly apparent. Public health issues such as residue, drug resistance, and carcinogenicity have been increasingly questioned. The basic principle of the growth of the antibacterial agent is to control the content of the pathogenic microorganisms in the animal body to be insufficient to cause the disease, so that the animals can grow normally under proper breeding and management operations.

Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Agents to Promote Animal Growth In addition to the aforementioned basic principles, some products, such as cinnamaldehyde, still have other modes of action, such as slowing intestinal peristalsis, prolonging absorption time, and increasing the absorption rate of feed ingredients after digestion; The efficiency of protein synthesis in animals increases the storage of nitrogen in the animal's body (approximately 7% increase), which can increase the body's lean percentage.

There is a lot of discussion about the added value of enzymes, and the effect has not been absolutely affirmed. At present, the majority of pigs, calves, and aquatic feeds are used.

The chemical compounds are mainly organic acids. They are immature for the development of the digestive system of young animals. By adding organic acids, they adjust the acid value in the digestive tract to activate the digestion of pepsin and inhibit the stomach. Proliferation of E. coli or other bacteria in the small intestine.

In terms of hormones, the only one included in the current feed supplement specification is iodinated protein. In addition to maintaining normal normal growth effects, such products can also promote cell synthesis of protein, increase fat metabolism rate, and reduce glucose utilization. However, it is necessary to formulate feed formulations with high nutrient content in order to highlight the effect, and the anti-stress ability of livestock will be reduced.

Is there a product that can simultaneously promote growth, improve feed efficiency, and prevent intestinal diseases without destroying normal flora in the intestine? What is more important is to be able to meet economic benefits and use simple products? This has always been a topic explored by feed experts.

Experts recently found that cinnamaldehyde is a complete and satisfactory product.

Cinnamaldehyde itself is a kind of spice, which has functions of promoting growth, improving feed efficiency and controlling bacterial diarrhoea of ​​poultry and livestock, and can increase the aroma of feed, induce animals to eat, and prevent moldy feed for a long time, and add cinnamaldehyde After the addition of other preservatives. Experts further research found that cinnamaldehyde also has the following characteristics.

First, to promote growth:

Cinnamaldehyde not only works well in pigs, but also can be used in chicken, duck, and cattle feeds, which greatly benefits the time-to-market. Even more noteworthy is that even high-dose (25/50/100/200 ppm) use will not harm the intestinal villi.

Second, improve feed efficiency:

Cinnamaldehyde is different from common growth promoters, it can actually increase the nitrogen storage in the animal (about 7% increase) in animal feed, and nitrogen is the main component of muscle cells in synthetic animals, so it has an improvement in carcass quality. Positive influence.

3. Tests show that cinnamaldehyde has a killing effect on hemolytic E. coli that causes swine diarrhea and has no effect on the harmless non-hemolytic E. coli in the intestine. It has high safety and no concerns about reproductive problems. Sows The feed can also be used with peace of mind.

Fourth, no residue problem:

Although cinnamaldehyde was absorbed after 24 hours, 90% of the excreted urine was excreted in the urine with feces, and the remaining 5% was decomposed into nutrients after being absorbed for 24 hours. There are no harmful residues in the human body.

In addition, in farms and chicken farms where cinnamaldehyde has been used for a long time, the soil doped with feces has been found to be degraded by 90-99% after cinnamaldehyde has been excreted into the soil for 24 hours.

V. General Usage and Consumption:

Pig: 5-20 kg 100 ppm

20-60 kg 50 100 ppm

60-100 kg 50 ppm

Chicken: Chicken feed 40 ppm

Large chicken feed 20 ppm

Duck: 50 ppm