Do you know the difference between potassium diformate and several feed substitutes?

 In the search for a new alternative, the role of alternative feed additives is also the most important in the whole feed industry. Do you know the difference between potassium diformate and several common feed substitute products in the current market?

Chinese herbal medicine

With the restriction of antibiotics in the past two years, veterinary Chinese herbal medicine has been paid more attention. How is the application feasibility of Chinese herbal medicine in replacing antibiotics?

Function: the function is one-sided and has certain effect in immune regulation.

Effect: the effect is slow, the function is not comprehensive, the research progress is slow because of its rough processing, large dosage, complex formula, unstable effect and other characteristics. There is no real comprehensive replacement.

Potassium diformate

As a new feed additive, potassium diformate can reduce the pH value of feed in the digestive tract and provide the most suitable digestive environment for animals.

Bacteriostasis: it has obvious bacteriostatic effect.

Function: it can promote the growth of antibiotics. In fact, it has a strong killing effect on pathogenic bacteria in the intestine. Its unique anti microbial function is based on the comprehensive effect of formic acid and formate. It is ingested in the form of intact potassium diformate and passed through the acidic stomach to reach the neutral and alkaline rear intestine, which is automatically decomposed into formic acid and formate. The non dissociated formic acid passes through the cell wall of bacteria and makes the pH in the cell decrease, and the pH in the cell is close to 7. The first generation of organic acids into the cell, destroy the enzyme function in the cell, also nutrient delivery system, so that microorganisms can not reproduce, leading to death, play a bacteriostatic and bactericidal function. Formate anions decompose bacterial cell wall proteins outside the cell wall and play the role of sterilization and bacteriostasis.

Potassium diformate is not only highly acidic, but also slowly released in the digestive tract. It has a high buffer capacity and can avoid excessive fluctuations in animal gastrointestinal acidity.

In July 2001, the European Union approved potassium diformate as the first substitute for antibiotic growth promoting agent in pig feed. In April 2003, the European Union passed a guiding regulation, which approved to increase the maximum safe dosage of commercial potassium diformate for piglets and growing pigs to 1.8% - 1.2%. In July 2005, the EU issued the supplementary Committee regulation in time, which approved the use of potassium diformate as a growth promoting agent in sow feed.

Oligosaccharide

There are many kinds of oligosaccharides. At present, the oligosaccharides used as feed additives mainly include fructooligosaccharide, galactooligosaccharide, mannooligosaccharide, soybean oligosaccharide, isomaltose, xylooligosaccharide, etc. These oligosaccharides are short chain branched sugars, which cannot be decomposed by digestive enzymes secreted by monogastric animals. However, after entering the digestive tract, it can be digested and utilized by beneficial intestinal microorganisms, selectively promoting the proliferation of Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus, Streptococcus and other beneficial bacteria. So, does promoting the proliferation of beneficial bacteria mean that it can replace antibiotics?

Bacteriostasis: it has no bactericidal effect, only provides nutrients for beneficial bacteria.

Function: the function is one-sided, mainly reflected in the intestinal health, can indirectly improve immunity; can not fully replace antibiotics.

Probiotics

As probiotics, the main function of probiotics is to regulate the balance of animal intestinal flora. Therefore, it should be mainly used to prevent intestinal diseases. So can it play a practical role in the replacement of antibiotics? Function: the main efficacy is reflected in intestinal health, promoting growth and reducing ammonia. Results: the stability is poor, the balance point of flora is difficult to control, the nutrition consumption is increased, it is difficult to keep, the probiotics are ineffective when using drugs on site, and the product standardization is insufficient.

Enzyme preparation

Feed enzymes can be roughly divided into digestive enzymes and non digestive enzymes, which usually play a role in nutrition. For example, improve the activity of endogenous enzymes in livestock and poultry digestive tract, supplement the deficiency of endogenous enzymes, destroy the plant cell wall, and improve the utilization efficiency of feed. It can eliminate the antinutritional factors in feed and promote the digestion and absorption of nutrients.

Bacteriostasis: no bacteriostasis.

Function: the main function is reflected in nutrition, no antibacterial and immune regulation function. It is impossible to replace antibiotics, glucose oxidase is not mature and cost is high.

Plant essential oil

Function: the function is relatively comprehensive, and has the effect of bacteriostasis and immune regulation.

Deficiency: volatile, oxidizable and hard to preserve (the stability of essential oil products is an important evaluation standard for quality.

Among all the additives, the best one is suitable for self breeding mode. The restriction or prohibition of antibiotics for feed has brought severe challenges to feed and aquaculture. The wide application of potassium diformate also provides a sustainable, healthy and rapid development for animal husbandry in the post antibiotic era.