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he diets of pigs and poultry are fully additive with that of another unless the ibility of starch and fat where between reduced in the presence of phytase, but not and measuring some response criteria such as Undigested lysine = 0.08%
a complex matrix of nutrients substrates and, importantly, the correspond- 15-20 percent of the undigested fraction is to the same extent for all nutrients. weight gain, conversion, bone ash, or digestibility Phytase: 0.017%
variably contaminated with ing nutrients which are released, do not rendered digestible with xylanase. (total tract or ileal). Xylanase: 0.024%
anti-nutrients and diluents. The digesti- overlap at all. Thus, the magnitude of response is largely The law of diminishing return One practical illustration of this is in the Protease: 0.048%
bility of nutrients, such as fat, starch It is the purpose of the current article to dictated by the inherent digestibility prior to Due to upwards pressure on the price of application of amino acid matrices for feed Using phytase, xylanase and protease
and protein, is generally high (that is, summarise these principles and suggest how xylanase addition but a similar proportion of many commonly used feed ingredients such enzymes used in combination. in combination = 0.089% improvement in
over 80%) but this can and does vary they be applied to the strategic selection of the undigested fraction is captured regardless as corn, fat and protein sources, the use of Taking lysine as an example and applying digestible lysine (i.e. from 1.15% to 1.24%).
depending on a host of diet, animal feed enzymes, with particular emphasis on of the nutrient in question. several feed additives can be, at least at face real published nutrient release values for vari- In the above example the use of sup-
and environmental factors. admixtures of xylanase and phytase. Since xylanase improves the digestibility value, attractive for poultry producers. ous commercially available products: plier’s recommendations for lysine results in
of nutrients based largely on the quantity of
Though feed enzymes are purported to Non-starch polysaccharide- the undigested fraction, any additive which
improve the digestibility of various dietary degrading enzymes improves digestibility (reducing the undigest-
nutrients, this response will vary depending The beneficial effect of carbohydrases ed fraction) will by definition mute xylanase
largely on the inherent digestibility of the diet on performance and nutrient digestibility is efficacy.
prior to enzyme intervention. thought to be due to reduced intestinal vis-
Thus, in diets with a relatively poor starch, cosity, reduced integrity of cell wall architec- Phytase
protein, fat or mineral digestibility there is a ture, improved microbial balance via removal The mechanism of action of exogenous
greater potential for feed enzymes to elicit a of fermentable starch and protein and provi- phytases are quite different to xylanases.
beneficial response. sion of oligomers from fibre digestion which Phytate represents a significant antinutri-
A good example of this relationship is the prove pre-biotic in their
effect of xylanases on ileal amino acid digest- nature.
ibility. Amino acid digestibility averages 80-85 Interestingly, recent
percent but this is highly dependent on the evidence suggests that
amino acid in question with methionine, a reduced intestinal vis-
arginine and glutamic acid being considerably cosity may be the most
more readily digested than cysteine, threo- immediately relevant, even
nine, serine or proline. in diets based on corn.
The consequence of this is that feed According to almost 20
enzymes will improve the digestibility of peer-reviewed papers
cysteine and threonine to a much greater (see Figures 2 and 3)
extent than they will for methionine. which report the effect of
So, as with many of life’s principles, the xylanase on ileal protein
Figure 1: Illustration of the relationship between
value of feed enzymes follows a distinct digestibility, a consistent inherent ileal nutrient digestibility and the
law of diminishing return (see Figure 1) as 15 percent improvement magnitude of response to feed enzymes
diet nutritional value improves. Thus, when in the undigested fraction
considering mixtures of enzymes, only the is apparent.
first can carry its full matrix and all subse- This consistency may only be explained ent in the diets of poultry and this antinutri-
quent additives must have their contribu- by a mass average mechanism such as tive effect is expressed through a physi-
tions truncated by the contributions of the improved diffusion of nutrients in the lumen ological cascade involving changes in pepsin,
incumbents. as no preference is evident for nutrients of mucin and NaHCO3 production.
By definition this suggests that the effect endogenous or exogenous origin. These As the effect of phytate and phytase is
of one feed enzyme is highly unlikely to be principles also hold true for the ileal digest- quite specific (rather than mass average) the
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