Around 70% of the feed price is determined by the costs of energy supplying feedstuff. Therefore, optimizing pig energy metabolism and its physiological status to extract as much energy as possible from the feed nutrients is a leverage to increase producer profitability. Until now, the use of Saccharomyces cerevisiae boulardii CNCM I-1079 (LEVUCELL SB) has been mainly advocated and documented for its benefits in sow and piglet diet, as both a performance enhancer and gut health promoter. However, precise metabolic studies have long proven that the probiotic yeast can also benefit the nutritional efficiency of fattening pigs. Such studies have enabled us to attribute a minimum energy value to the probiotic (1.6% of total Net Energy of the diet): thus, in the same way as with enzymes, the live yeast effect can be integrated into diet formulation for more accurate nutritional balance and it results in improved production cost.
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