Digestive
Efficiency

Maximize Digestive Efficiency for Optimal Livestock Performance

Why Digestive Efficiency

Why Choose our Digestive Efficiency Solutions?

Maximize animal performance and profitability with Bextral’s digestive efficiency solutions. The ability to break down, absorb, and utilize nutrients effectively is essential for promoting growth, improving feed conversion, and reducing overall feed costs. Optimizing digestive efficiency ensures animals extract the maximum nutritional value from the diet, supporting better health, consistent performance, and higher returns on investment. With increasing pressure on cost and sustainability, enhancing nutrient utilization is not just a benefit, it’s a necessity.

Digestive Efficiency technologies

Our core technologies

Lysolecithins: Support optimal digestion and absorption for improved feed efficiency.

Enzymes: Improve nutritional efficiency with our enzymes

Mode of Action

The strategic targets of Digestive Efficiency

Nutrient Digestion

Digestion is the essential first step in nutrient utilization. Feed components must be broken down into absorbable units such as amino acids, sugars, and fatty acids to deliver energy and support growth. Yet, many raw materials are complex or contain anti-nutritional factors that limit natural digestibility. Supporting enzymatic hydrolysis ensures that nutrients are efficiently released during digestion, setting the foundation for optimal performance.

Nutrient Absorption

After digestion, nutrients must cross the intestinal membrane to be utilized by the body. This process depends on several factors: intestinal surface area, transporter activity, membrane permeability, and overall mucosal integrity. When any of these are compromised, nutrient uptake is reduced, leading to losses in performance and feed efficiency. Enhancing membrane fluidity and transport efficiency supports faster, more effective absorption, ensuring that digested nutrients are fully available for metabolism and growth.

Fat Emulsification

Fats are energy-dense but difficult to digest. Their breakdown depends on emulsification, a process largely driven by bile salts. In young animals, bile production is limited, and high-fat diets or plant oils only increase the challenge. Without proper emulsification, lipases can’t work efficiently, leading to poor fat digestion, lost energy, and weaker performance.

Phytate Breakdown

Phytate is the main storage form of phosphorus in plant-based feed, but it’s poorly digested by monogastric animals and acts as an anti-nutritional factor, binding essential minerals and nutrients. Breaking down phytate releases digestible phosphorus, improves mineral and protein availability, and reduces the need for inorganic supplementation.

Fiber Hydrolysis

Plant cell walls contain non-starch polysaccharides (NSPs) like arabinoxylans, which are difficult to digest and act as anti-nutritional factors, increasing gut viscosity and trapping nutrients. By breaking down these fibers, fiber-degrading enzymes reduce viscosity, improve nutrient release, and enhance energy utilization, especially in high-cereal or high-by-product diets.

Targeting Complex Diets

Modern feed formulations often combine a variety of raw materials, each with its own challenges, from phytates and complex carbohydrates to resistant proteins or fibers. Using multi-enzyme strategies allows simultaneous action on several substrates, improving the digestibility of diverse diets. This leads to more consistent performance, better feed conversion, and greater flexibility in ingredient selection.

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How it’s made

Discover how Bextral ensures quality and results

Our process

From Innovation to Animal Health

STEP 01.

Research & Innovation

Every solution starts with in-depth research. Our team of scientists and nutrition experts continuously explore the latest advancements in animal nutrition, microbiology, and feed technology to develop innovative, science-backed formulations.

STEP 02.

Formulation & Development

Once key ingredients are identified, we craft precise formulations using high-performance additives. We focus on the synergy between natural extracts, organic acids, and functional compounds to maximize health benefits and efficiency.

STEP 03.

Testing & Validation

Before any product reaches the market, it undergoes rigorous testing in both laboratory and field conditions. We collaborate with research institutions and farms to validate efficacy, ensuring optimal gut health, pathogen control, and feed efficiency.

STEP 04.

Production & Quality Control

Manufactured in GMP+ and HACCP-certified facilities, our feed additives meet the highest industry standards. Every batch is thoroughly tested to guarantee consistency, safety, and maximum effectiveness.

STEP 05.

Distribution & Support

Our products are delivered globally, ensuring fresh and high-quality solutions for livestock and aquaculture industries. Our expert team provides tailored guidance, helping farmers and nutritionists implement the best strategies for animal health and productivity.

STEP 06.

From Feed to Consumption

Once integrated into feed, our additives actively support digestion, immunity, and overall performance. By improving nutrient absorption, pathogen resistance, and feed efficiency, Bextral ensures healthier animals and more sustainable farming.