Feed Enzymes

Feed enzyme is a kind of active protein. It’s a feed additive with many advantages of no residue, no pollution and no adverse effects on human and animal health.

Feed enzyme can degrade the indigestible plant feed in the digestive tract of animals to make full use of nutrients, therefore, improving the digestibility of the feed and improving the production performance and product quality of animals.

Enzyme Types

There are many types of enzymes that have been found, and more than 300 kinds of enzymes have been used for production, and more than 20 kinds of enzymes are used in feed. Feed enzymes include endogenous digestive enzymes, exogenous digestive enzymes and complex enzyme.

1. Endogenous Digestive Enzyme

Endogenous digestive enzymes refer to a class of enzymes that animals can synthesize and secrete into the digestive tract. Insufficient endogenous digestive enzymes in animals will directly affect the feeding effect. There are two cases of endogenous digestive enzyme deficiency:

(1) Inadequate enzymes in animals, such as non-herbivorous animals lack cellulase, phytase, etc.

(2) Insufficient secretion of physiological endogenous digestive enzymes, that is, when animals are in a state of juvenile, old age, disease or stress, there will be a decrease in the secretion of endogenous digestive enzymes. Endogenous digestive enzymes including amylase, protease, and lipase

cellulase enzymes

Cellulase

phytase in poultry feed

Phytase

Amylase

Amylase

lipase enzyme

Lipase

protease

Protease

2. Exogenous Digestive Enzymes

When Livestock and poultry cannot synthesize exogenous digestive enzymes, Enzymes are generally needed to be added to the diet to help animals digest or degrade some substances.

The main function of these enzymes is to degrade some non-starch polysaccharides in the digestive tract, reduce the viscosity of intestinal contents, and promote digestion and absorption of nutrients to reduce diarrhea rate of livestock and poultry

Such enzymes mainly include cellulase, hemicellulase, phytase, pectinase, etc.

cellulase

Cellulase

phytase

Phytase

pectinase enzyme

Pectinase

Feed Complex Enzymes

Compound enzyme is a mixture of two or more enzyme preparations, which can degrade various substances in the feed at the same time and improve the nutritional value of the feed to a greater extent. Compound enzyme preparations mainly include the following categories

  • (1) Protease and Amylase Compound Enzyme

Mainly used to supplement the deficiency of animal endogenous digestive enzymes

  • (2) β-glucanase Compound Enzyme

Mainly used to the diets with barley and oats as important raw materials to reduce the viscosity of the contents of the digestive tract and promote the digestion and absorption of nutrients

  • (3) Cellulose and Pectinase Feed Compound Enzyme

Mainly used to destroy plant cell walls and release nutrients in cells

  • (4) Feed Compound Enzymes with More Enzymes

Mainly cellulase, protease, amylase, saccharification enzyme, beta glucanase, and pectinase, combine the functions of various enzymes and have a stronger digestive effect. At present, the development of enzyme preparation products tends to be complex

Protease and Amylase Compound Enzyme

β-glucanase Compound Enzyme

Cellulose and Pectinase Feed Compound Enzyme

Feed Compound Enzymes with more Enzymes