Animal Health Care (AHC) segment feed materials are normally composed of plant material, cereals, and vegetable proteins. These cannot be fully digested and utilized. However, external addition of ingredients like feed supplements or enzymes to the feed increases them.

Many cereals have a proportion of their energy in the form of non-starch polysaccharides (NSPs), more commonly known as fiber. Enzymes will break down these NSPs which lead to increased metabolizable energy and protein utilization. In some cereals, a large part of the NSP is soluble and causes high viscosity in the intestine and improving feed utilization.

In order to address this important issue, Prathista invented “multizyme” a one in all product to improve feed quality. Multizyme is a very unique blend of enzymes produced by solid-state fermentation. It will take care of various problems in chickens like effect caused due to the presence of non-starch polysaccharides, galactosides, phytases, and other anti-nutritional factors present in the feedstuff.

The digestive system of chicken comprises of natural enzymes to digest complex molecules in the feed like proteins, carbohydrates, fats etc. Poultry feed involves many plant and animal origin ingredients.

1) Plant sources like corn, maize, wheat, oat, rye, bajra, rice, rice polish, millets like sorghum, bajra, dorb, soya bean meal, and sunflower cake etc.

2) Animal source includes fish meal, meat meal, liver meal, bone meal, and blood meal etc.

Animal residues are easily digestible by chicken; however, plant origin materials are not completely digestible due to the presence of certain inherent residues. These residues are not digested due to the lack of required endogenous enzymes. A customized blend of enzymes helps to unlock the valuable nutrients present in the inherent residues and thus, made bio-available to birds, which are not otherwise carried out.

These indigestible plant residues are

1) Non-starch polysaccharides

2) Galactosides

3) Phytases

4) Anti-nutritional components like lectins, tannins, trypsin inhibitor etc.