Simple Summary The first week after hatch is the most challenging period in the life of
broilers. The digestive tract of the newly hatched chick is immature and must undergo …

Background During the last decades, several challenges have significantly affected the egg
industry, such as the increasing consumer demand for animal welfare, the need for more …

Despite its very low level in humans, selenium plays an important and unique role among
the (semi) metal trace essential elements because it is the only one for which incorporation …

The food industry is one of the most important branches of the national economy in Italy and
in the European Union in general, playing a central role for the processing of agricultural …

Margarine has been the chameleon of manufactured food products, able to transform its
nutritional appearance, adapt to changing nutritional fads, and charm unwitting nutrition …

It was mainly the advances in understanding the relationship between nutrition and health
that resulted in the development of the concept of functional foods, which means a practical …

Attention to the role of n-3 long-chain fatty acids in human health and disease has been
continuously increased during recent decades. Many clinical and epidemiologic studies …

Animal feed provides a range of antioxidants that help the body building an integrated
antioxidant system responsible for a prevention of damaging effects of free radicals and …

The global demand for table eggs has increased exponentially due to the growing human
population. To meet this demand, major advances in hen genetics, nutrition, and husbandry …

A direct relationship between foods and health has led to various scientific studies to find the
significance of foods or food ingredients on specific functions in the body. The term …