Nutrition and Food Chemistry

Livestock Nutrition

An optimal nutritional package should guarantee adequate intakes of amino acids, carbohydrates, fatty acids, minerals, and vitamins by animals through a supplementation package that modifies deficiencies in basal diets. Dietary supplementation with certain nutrients such as arginine, glutamine and zinc can regulate gene expression and metabolic paths to enhance immune function, fertility, pregnancy outcome, neonatal survival and growth, feed efficiency and meat quality. The proper balance of protein, vitamins and all nutritionally important minerals in diets is needed to make a fruitful nutrition program that is both productive and economical.