The special nutrition and health effect of mugwort extract as a green feed material.

1. Hyperchromic effect

In order to improve the color of the meat, eggs, and milk products of farmed animals, so as to increase the commodity price of the products, farmers often add them to the feed toner. 

The carotene, lutein, chlorophyll and other substances contained in the extract of mugwort are natural pollution-free and excellent color enhancing agents. Adding 3%~10% mugwort leaf powder to livestock and poultry feed can generally improve the skin, lean meat and egg yolks are 3-8 levels, adding 2%-4% mugwort leaf powder to freshwater fish and shrimp bait to increase skin color by 3 to 5 Grade, mugwort extract also has a better color-increasing effect on milk.

2. Used as feed antifungal agent

Chloroic acid and other substances in mugwort extract can inhibit germs and effectively kill molds. Mixing an appropriate amount of mugwort leaf powder into the stored feed can be used as a natural anti-fungal preservative for feed. According to reports, the extract of mugwort leaf can be used as a fresh-keeping preservative for aquatic products.

3. Deworming effect

Artemisia wormwood extract has obvious effect of repelling mosquitoes, and can repel parasites in animals, inhibit the survival of eggs in animal feces, thereby preventing secondary pollution.

4. Promote animal reproduction

Mugwort extract has the effects of stopping leakage and anti-fetus, warming menstruation and stopping bleeding. Among its nutrients, it contains protein, trace elements and a large amount of Vc, carrots, etc. 

These nutrients can promote animal reproduction. Among the traditional health-care prescriptions for promoting pregnancy and fetal protection in livestock, mugwort extract is the first choice blindly important medicine.

5. Improve the quality of animal products

The rich nutrients in mugwort extract can increase the nutrients in the product. According to Feng Chengwei report, adding 1% fresh wormwood leaves to the green feed of beef cattle, after 1 60b feeding and slaughter, it is found that the beef muscle fiber of the test group is only 1\3 of the control, the muscle color is improved, and the fresh flavor of the meat after cooking is significantly better than that of the control. 

Group. Studies have shown that adding 3% mugwort leaf powder in the diet of laying hens can increase the yellowness of eggs by 4.5 levels and reduce the cholesterol content in eggs by 48.3%. Using astatine leaf powder as an additive for goat concentrate can significantly reduce the original smell of mutton. Taste, fragrant and strong.

6. Promote growth and save feed

Mugwort extract is rich in protein and relatively complete amino acids, vitamins, trace elements and other nutrients needed for animal growth and development, especially substances containing unknown growth-promoting factors. 

It can be used as an animal feed additive to supplement, perfect and balance feed. The nutritional level makes the compound material more priced, thereby improving the digestion, absorption and conversion rate of the feed in the animal’s gastrointestinal tract, making full use of the nutrients in the feed to promote the growth and development of the animal, while also saving part of the feed and reducing the feed coefficient. 

7. Attraction

The volatile oil of mugwort extract contains a strong fragrant odor. The odor can effectively improve some unpleasant odors in the feed and turn the feed into a fragrant odor, which greatly improves the palatability of the feed, improves appetite, and shortens the eating time. 

It is especially used for freshwater aquaculture. The feed attractant for fish has a significant effect on attracting food.

This is the benefit of mugwort extract in green feed. The above news hopes to help everyone. If you need mugwort extract, you can follow Nutra-Herb Ingredient Inc.~

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