Animal nutrition

Enzymes in animal feed industry are exogenous in origin, derived especially from microbes engineered for specific enzyme production in-vitro. They are special feed supplements which aim at improving “Digestibility” by acting in the gastro-intestinal tract of the animal.

The use of enzymes as a feed additive has rapidly expanded during the past decade. Commercial enzymes commonly have fungal or bacterial origins. Enzymes are sensitive to environmental conditions and have the best performance at moderate temperature and 6-8 pH ranges.

Anti-nutritional factors are feed constituents which limit nutritional availability and adversely affect performance. NSP is the most important anti-nutritional factor which makes up the cell wall carbohydrates (e.g Arabino Xylans and Beta Glucans).

As cell wall constituents, NSPs entrap easily digestible nutrients in the cell interior making it difficult for the body's own digestive enzymes to gain access (cage effect). By forming these cages, NSPs limit the Apparent Metabolizable energy (AME) significantly. Also due to high water absorption and swelling capacity, NSPs cause increase in intestinal content viscosity fin ally resulting in slower intestinal passage, lower food intake and impaired digestive.

CHEMZYME Feed Enzymes added directly to the feed acts as supplements to the normal digestive enzymes and carry out converting complex food molecules into easily digestible fragments. Poultry diets rich in high protein and high energy sources needs to be augmented by CHEMZYME multi enzyme cocktail concentrates containing the required levels of Protease, Amylase, Phytase, Lipase, Xylanase (and other hemicellulases) suitable for a wide range of broiler and layer diets. CHEMZYME feed Enzyme cocktail concentrates can be diluted to a wide variety of poultry and farm feed.

Β-Glucanase Improve the digestion glucans in the animal feed liberating more available energy and reduce viscosity of the intestine/gut.

Cellulase Plant cell wall contains considerable amounts of non-starch-polysaccharides (NSPs). This feature necessarily limits the use these widely available ingredients in poultry diets. By the use of these enzymes, NSP can be hydrolysed and their anti-nutritive effects eliminated.

Xylanase : Xylanase has the effectiveness of breaking down hemicellulose and xylan component of the cell wall of the plant. Xylanese is employed as an ingredient in animal feed to improve digestibility and enhancing the efficacy of nutrient absorption by facilitating the conversion of hemicellulose, originally locked in the cell walls of the grains, to sugars. As such the nutrients are easier to be released and the animal can then obtain better energy with less feed. Cost effectiveness of feed is thus attained.

Pectinase : It is mainly consists of pectin esterase , exo and endo pectinase. Pectin esterase breaks the methyl ester bond in pectins , converting them to pectic acid . Endo and exo pectinases further hydrolyses pectic acid to produce oligomers rather than galacturonic units.

Lipase Helps to digesting vegetable fats and oils available from plant cells or external oils added to the feed