Phytase Use In Poultry Diets
Phytase is very important to improve the nutritional value of feed and improve animal growth performance and health. Phytase is an enzyme that provides phosphorus from phytic for animal digestion. Phytase has been mainly used as a food supplement for pigs and poultry.
Moreover, the addition of phytase feed results in lower excretion of the phosphorus content in the manure, and contributes to a lower environmental impact of livestock.
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Phytase to feed application produced by the fermentation of microbial strains and are widely used in pig and poultry feed. phytase accounts for over 50% of the total market of feed enzymes.
Phytase benefits are reducing the use of expensive inorganic phosphorus in food animals and environmental pollution from excessive phosphorus.
In the grains used for animal feed, around 60-75% of the phosphorus in organically bound form is known as phytate, which can not be utilized by monogastric animals.
The level of phytase inclusion in animal diets depend on both the desired level phytin reduction and economic considerations.
Phytase is currently produced by submerged fermentation and is relatively inexpensive. Phytase produced by filamentous fungi at a selected feed ingredients also contain accessory enzymes, proteins mushroom and organic acids increased feed digestibility and access to phytin in plant cells.
This product can be directly mixed in feed rations as a supplement value added, further reducing the cost to be used in animal feed.