®Cibus
Cibus®:
Feed intake and palatability
Feed, even with high nutritional-health promoting values, will not be consumed in proper amounts if it does not have the desirable smell and taste. Feed intake is crucial for efficient animal production. Odour and taste are the most powerful stimuli of the animal’s chemical senses that will initiate reflex secretory phenomena, leading to increased feed efficiency.
Attractants:
They are organoleptic additives developed according to the animal’s taste and smell physiology and based on natural and natural-identical substances that improve, correct and reinforce the feed natural smell and taste, stimulating consumption, growth and production.
Why use attractants?
- To create in the animal a positive association between odour and feed stimulating feed consumption
- To trigger an increase of the digestive secretions via conditioned reflexes, preparing the gut for better digestion
- To mask unpleasant odours from minerals, antibiotics, by-products
- To provide a homogenous aromatic finishing
- To avoid alarm reactions associated with formulation changes
- To ease the early weaning process of young animals
Cibus®:
Innovad® attractants (Cibus®) are complex products, made from carefully assembled and numerous active principles distributed among terpenes, aldehydes and alcohols in a highly concentrated form having – depending on the need and purpose – an aromatic, a taste and a taste sensitivity modifying fraction.
Aromatic fraction:
- Responsible for distant attraction, as only volatile substances are able to be captured by the nasal receptors and for originating the olfactory feeling
- Divided into head notes (first to be perceived), body notes (giving character) and bottom notes (persistence & critical when feed is pelleted)
Taste fraction:
- Imports a pleasant taste to the feed. Made of ingredients that must be saliva soluble to stimulate the taste receptors located in the mouth.
Taste modifying fraction:
- Increases or decreases the taste threshold, reducing or increasing the animal’s ability to perceive them
- Opens or closes taste buds
- Stimulates nerve cells
Innovad® specific expertise in developing and applying attractants
With its dedicated manufacturing facility and professional laboratory with flavourists and product application specialists, Innovad® develops and manufactures aromatic extract bases to respond to identified needs applied into a variety of substrates (I.e. mineral feed, concentrates, pelleted and extruded feeds, vitamin/mineral premixes).
With our creation laboratories – specialized in analyzing odours with analytical techniques – as well as state-of-the-art production facilities, we master the whole process. From the very creation concept, over the choice of the choice of right raw materials, considering the very specific need for the final attractant extract, ready to be used.
Great art and care are key in selecting and assembling olfactive chemicals with high boiling points, chemical stabilizer and taste enhancing components.
- Quality assurance and certificates:
- FAVV – Belgian Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain
- Feed Hygiene Legislation
- Feed Chain Alliance (GMP Animal Feed – Ovocom)
- FAMI-QS Certification
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