Why Add Dietary Antioxidants?
Antioxidants help prevent the formation of free radicals, and are able to stabilize the molecule, controlling the propagation of lipid oxidation. Dietary antioxidants preserve the energy content, vitamins and pigments contained in rations, and prevent accumulation of toxic by-products that can impede performance.
How Antioxidants Work
- Stabilize energy value of fats and oils
- Reduce rancidity and unpalatable odors
- Stabilize and protect finished feed
- Stabilization of fat soluble (vitamins E and A) and water soluble vitamins (vitamin B)
- Binds free radicals to help achieve oxidative balance in digestive tract
AGRADO® Plus
- By maintaining the integrity of key nutrients, AGRADO Plus helps manage oxidative stress in the cow to utilize all of the ingredients being paid for in a ration
- Feeding AGRADO Plus helps maintain a cow’s oxidative balance for better nutrient utilization and performance which results in enhanced profitability
Mode of Action:
- Feed level, scavenging free radicals the minute it mixes with feed, protecting essential fatty acids and vitamins, saving money
- Rumen level, improving ruminal digestibility and alleviating the impact of dietary fats, increasing microbial protein, milk yield and fat
- Tissue level, minimizing the impact of oxidized fats and free radicals in the cells, promoting gut health and improving oxidative balance
Free Radicals, Oxidative Balance and Dietary Antioxidants
- Free radicals damage cells by oxidizing essential fatty acids of lipid membranes, protein and DNA, impairing productivity and compromising health
- High-producing dairy cows are prone to oxidative stress when levels of free radicals exceed the antioxidant capacity of the animal.
- Unstable dietary fat represents a major vehicle by which free radicals enter an animal.
- Dietary antioxidants stabilize dietary lipids from oxidation, thus preserving the nutrient content of the ration and preventing off odors/tastes which can impede performance.