SUCRAM® beyond sweetness, the Gut Effects

Pancosma high intensity sweetener SUCRAM® is today, arguably, the market leader sweet taste enhancer for animal feeds. 

SUCRAM® has a strong and unique effect on the tongue and the lingual epithelium. It provides a sophisticated long lasting sweet taste and neutralizes bitterness thanks to its specific patented formula and technology. For a long time, its efficacy has been proven with numerous applications such as sugar substitution in diets, masking of bitter ingredients (minerals, medicines, vegetal protein sources…), improving palatability for better feed intake and performance improvement.

Pancosma is today proving that SUCRAM® not only targets lingual epithelium, but also the gut epithelium. The gut is indeed an epithelial surface with sensory properties, able to perceive its environment and adapt to it. 

Thanks to a sophisticated research program, Pancosma has demonstrated that SUCRAM® is detected by swine’s and calves’ gut, leading to many crucial physiological responses: improved nutrient absorption and better gut integrity. Once detected at the gut level, SUCRAM® increases secretion of a gut trophic hormone (glucagon-like peptide 2) inducing higher glucose absorption and improving mucosa nutrition & protection. Therefore, SUCRAM® helps minimizing negative effects of challenges damaging gut integrity such as stress condition due to transport, heat, feed transition or pathogenic contamination damaging the gut (for instance PED virus). SUCRAM® Gut Effect in swine and calve has been the subject of the most rigorous peer reviewed scientific publications. 

This research is providing new tools and information to feed producer’s nutritionists that can have beneficial use in feed formulation. Pancosma is now at the forefront in the field of what is today known as Gut Effects.