Los prebióticos tipo inulina en alimentación aviar II: efectos sistémicos

Abstract

A primary goal of the animal feeding programs is to achieve and maintain high production efficiency. With this purpose, nowadays the research in poultry feeding is focussed to the use of prebiotics as an alternative to the antibiotic growth promoters (APC). In poultry production, prebiotics, and especially inulin-type fructans, could have beneficial effects at both local (intestinal function) and systemic levels. Since many prebiotics exhibit much of the physiological properties of dietary fibre, nowadays the research is paying special attention to the study of the effects of prebiotics on lipid and mineral metabolisms and immune system. The current article is a review of some of the systemic effects of inulin-type fructans in broiler feeding as well as of the incidence on performance.