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Gut microbiome in farm animals: the key to improved performance and health
The intestinal microbiome is considered a complex ecosystem of microorganisms that directly influence digestion, nutrient absorption, and immunity...
Discover the Pet Food market trends for 2025
Discover the key trends in the Pet Food market for 2025...
Feed and Food Ingredients: Specification Guide
BRF Ingredients was founded in 2016 with the goal of transforming animal and plant co-products into innovative...
Feeding Tilapia by growth stage: ingredients for an efficient diet
Proper nutrition is essential for the healthy development of tilapia, one of the most farmed species worldwide.
Learn everything about Hydrolyzed Chicken Protein
Hydrolyzed chicken protein is a nutritious ingredient produced through the enzymatic hydrolysis of chicken viscera, offal, and meat.
Digestibility and Palatability of Chicken Protein Hydrolysate
Animal nutrition is an ever-evolving field, always seeking to offer more efficient and healthy solutions for different species.
Enzymatic hydrolysis: what it is and how it enhances the quality of ingredients for animal nutritional health
Enzymatic hydrolysis is a biotechnological process that is increasingly valued in the animal nutrition industry.
What are Bioactive Peptides?
Do you know what bioactive peptides are? These nutrients have been increasingly used in animal nutrition...
How to Develop Hypoallergenic Pet Food? Learn All the Details
Pet nutrition is a growing concern among pet owners, especially when it comes to pets with food sensitivities or allergies...
Trends and innovations: the future of human and animal nutrition
What is the path that lies ahead for the Animal Nutrition and Food Ingredients? How technological innovations are going to change the food industry?
The benefits of BioActio in High-Performance Formulations
Hydrolysed proteins are a nutritional support highly used in the food industry to enrich food...
Innovation is a foundation stone in Animal Nutrition
Ananda Portella Felix has a doctoral degree in Animal Nutrition at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR)...
Shrimp farming: how palatability influences breeding
Shrimp feed palatability is a very important aspect for the quality of nutrition. Read more to know how it can directly influence shrimp farming.
How nutrtion can combat and control vibriosis
Animal health maintenance is a constant concern of professionals involved in zootechnical creation. With the development of agricultural sectors, the demand...
BRF TALKS: Expectations for the animal nutrition market
In addition to offering progressively assertive and high-quality solutions to the Animal Nutrition industry, it’s necessary to comprehend the challenges faced...
Protein Sources in Animal Nutrition: Uses and Trends
Production animals need to be nourished with balanced nutrition to achieve proper development levels. Feed (or nutrition) is the most expensive part of the...
How bioactive peptides impact aquaculture
Peptides are organic molecules formed by the union of two or more amino acids through peptide bonds, which occur between the carboxyl group of one amino acid...
What is the current scenario of the Animal Nutrition Market?
What is the current scenario of the animal nutrition market? To better understand the challenges faced by feed producers, in search of s that present an...
How to provide good health and productivity for tilapias?
The world population increases daily and is estimated to reach 8,24 billion people in 2030 [1,2]. Consequently, the supply of safe and affordable food may...
Hypoallergenic pet food and the trend in the pet market
The pet market is a fast-growing segment, and because of this, it seeks new ways to specialize every day to meet the demands of pets and their tutors. The...
Alternatives to improve digestibility of pet food
The pet industry in Brazil is one of the fastest-growing markets, with pet food products accounting for more than 73% of its income. In 2020, the sector as a...
What is digestibility in aquaculture and how to improve it
In order to formulate feed and choose ingredients for fish farming nutrition it is essential to consider not only the quantity of protein necessary for a...
What are the factors that affect animal digestibility?
When formulating feed and foods for animals certain important factors must be considered in order to maintain the efficiency of the product and a good uptake...
How to increase digestibility in pet food
Another factor that must be considered when choosing an ingredient is information about its digestibility. This is an essential element to provide quality...
What are the essential amino acids aquaculture?
For aquatic animals, more important than the protein content required in the diet, is its quality. But how do you measure the quality of a protein to use in...
How palatability impacts acquaculture?
In aqua nutrition, palatability is an important aspect to be taken into account when formulating feeds, considering that this characteristic is intrinsically...
Animal Nutrition: how to choose the right protein for pets
When choosing pet food, most pet owners have one focus in mind: protein. And actually, it could not be otherwise. Balanced protein intake is an essential part...
How to qualify suppliers for animal nutrition?
It is not possible to obtain a quality product without the raw material and the inputs also having quality. This is an old and extremely true saying...
Why should pet formulations contain antioxidants?
Antioxidants perform very important functions for the human body and also for food products. Because of this, they are always in evidence regarding scientific...
Common fish diseases: causes, symptoms and treatments
Fish farming has become increasingly important as it meets the demand for high quality animal protein. In addition, the consumption of fish offers consumers...
Enzymatic hydrolysis as an ally of animal nutrition
Why to hydrolyze a protein? What are the advantages that it can bring from a nutritional point of view? The key to this question helps answer why enzymatic...
Aquaculture: why replace fish oil with animal oil?
In aquaculture, without any doubt, animal feed represents the largest portion of production cost. The formulated feed for aquatic animals has as one of its...
Feline nutrition: how to create a complete and healthy formulation
Cat owners sometimes get lost among the different cat food options available in the market. Which one will be the most pleasing to the feline palate? Which...
How temperature affects pig farming
Pig farming is one of the most profitable areas of animal husbandry. The low initial investment needed, the high meat performance and the pigs ability to...
How different diets can impact the weaning process of pigs?
Whoever works in the swine industry knows that the weaning phase is one of the most delicate ones during the life cycle of pigs. Weaning is a transitional...
The importance of suplementation in Animal Nutrition
Over the past 50 years, global meat consumption has increased a lot. Analyzing the results of the sector, there was a growth of 4 to 5 times, going from 71.36...
How to improve Pig Nutririon?
In Pig Farming, the highest cost of production is represented by food. This statement, however, ends up resulting in many pig farmers to make a mistake that...
How BioActio pontecialize nutrition in aquaculture?
In an animal husbandry system, efficient food management is a determining factor in the business success. In an production environment of aquatic organisms...
Bioactive Peptides: A More Efficient Animal Nutrition
Knowing the best nutritional solution is a necessity for breeders and a duty of those responsible for the manufacture of animal feed. Therefore, understanding...
