Abstract:
Livestock play a significant role in the global agricultural industry. Maintaining optimal gut health is crucial for their overall well-being, growth, and productivity. Probiotics have shown great potential in improving gut health by modulating the intestinal microbial balance and enhancing nutrient absorption. However, the effectiveness of probiotics can be compromised due to their sensitivity to environmental conditions and low survival rates during passage through the gastrointestinal tract. Encapsulation techniques provide a viable solution to protect probiotics from harsh digestive conditions and enhance their delivery to the target site within the gut. The encapsulation process involves coating the probiotic cells with a protective matrix, which shields them from adverse conditions such as pH fluctuations, bile salts, and enzymatic degradation. The encapsulated probiotics exhibit increased viability and survival during storage and transit, ensuring a higher chance of reaching the intestinal tract in an active form. They promote the growth of beneficial bacteria, such as Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium, while inhibiting the growth of harmful pathogens. The encapsulated probiotics also enhance the integrity of the gut barrier, reducing the incidence of gastrointestinal disorders, such as diarrhoea and enteric infections. Improved gut health leads to better nutrient absorption and utilization, resulting in enhanced growth performance and productivity in animals. Furthermore, encapsulation techniques allow for controlled release of probiotics within the gut, ensuring sustained exposure to beneficial microorganisms. This sustained release pattern enhances the colonization and establishment of probiotics in the gut microbiota, leading to long-lasting effects on gut health and performance. Therefore, encapsulation of probiotics may offer a promising strategy to improve gut health and productivity in animals and layer. Further, research and development in this field can pave the way for the practical application of encapsulated probiotics in livestock production systems, ultimately benefiting the industry by improving animal welfare and productivity.
Audience take away notes?
- Explain how the audience will be able to use what they learn?
By learning about encapsulation of probiotics, the audience gains the ability to make informed choices when it comes to selecting, storing, and using probiotic products. They can optimize their digestive health, make better purchasing decisions, explore innovative applications, and share their knowledge with others, thereby harnessing the benefits of encapsulated probiotics in their daily lives.
- How will this help the audience in their job?
A comprehensive understanding of encapsulation of probiotics can provide professionals in various job roles with a competitive edge, enabling them to make informed decisions, develop innovative products, ensure quality control, contribute to research advancements, and effectively market probiotic solutions in their respective fields.
- Is this research that other faculty could use to expand their research or teaching?
Yes, definitely this research can be replicated in various model for the benefit of society. Now a days probiotics can be used in variety of application. Ensuring their better viability and availability and better performances will certainly benefit the food industry, human application as well as different class of animals.
- Does this provide a practical solution to a problem that could simplify or make a designer’s job more efficient?
The encapsulation probiotics may help to through experimentation and monitoring, the design can gather data on the impact of protected probiotics on specific parameters such as growth performance, feed efficiency, productivity and disease incidence. This information can help refine the design, make adjustments to the feeding program, and optimize the use of protected probiotics to achieve the desired outcomes.
- Will it improve the accuracy of a design, or provide new information to assist in a design problem?
Incorporation of protected probiotics into animal feed, can aim to optimize gut health, which is crucial for nutrient absorption, disease prevention, and overall well-being.
Performance Optimization: Protected probiotics can positively influence the growth performance of animals. By enhancing the gut environment and supporting a balanced microbial population, probiotics can promote optimal nutrient absorption and utilization, resulting in improved weight gain, feed efficiency, and overall productivity. This will certainly affect the economy of overall production system.
Facilitates combination and compatibility: Encapsulation allows for the incorporation of multiple probiotic strains or the combination of probiotics with other functional ingredients. This flexibility enables the development of custom formulations tailored to specific animal species, health conditions, or production goals.
List all other benefits.
1.Improve viability of selected probiotics under gastrointestinal condition.
2. Enhancement in immune response and antioxidant capacity of product.
3. Improvement in gut health, microbial diversity along with productive performances in animals along with quality and quantity of various products.
4. Various combinations of probiotics can be used with various numbers of polysaccharides compounds for encapsulation and it can be easily commercialized for industrial production and sustainable usage in animal production system.
