Effects of exogenous proteases without or with carbohydrases on nutrient digestibility and disappearance of non-starch polysaccharides in broiler chickens
Published:July 15, 2016
Summary
Introduction The use of exogenous proteases in poultry diets has gained momentum during the last decade. The first commercial protease was introduced into the poultry feed market in the 1990s in combination with other enzymes, with the aim to increase the energy and protein digestibility of grain and oilseed meal based diets (Simbaya et al., 1996). A number of proteases are now availab...
In this very informative study the energy was increased by the addition of proteases. I wish the authors could have elaborated more on this aspect that how protease increase the energy? Although, the conventional knowledge depicted that proteases is meant to digest proteins only.