{"title":"Research progress of tannins and poultry intestinal health.","authors":"Z Zhao, Z Cheng, Y Ji, W Nie","doi":"10.1080/00071668.2025.2559003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>1. In recent years, tannin has been used as a natural alternative to antibiotics due to its wide availability, ease of large-scale production and efficient extraction from other plants, compared with foreign additives such as plant essential oils and organic acids.2. Tannins are secondary metabolites widely existing in plants as a natural defence mechanism, which exhibit various bioactivities. In poultry, appropriate addition of tannins can enhance the growth performance and play a positive regulatory role in intestinal health, but inclusion in diets is limited by the bitter taste of tannins. However, 1 g/kg tannin in feed significantly reduced the final body weight of broilers and disrupted normal morphology in the intestinal tract.3. Data indicated that the effect of tannin was significantly influenced by its source and dosage, but these differences need to be confirmed. However, there is data showing tannin regulation of intestinal health in poultry, providing practical ideas on mechanism of action and commercial applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":9322,"journal":{"name":"British Poultry Science","volume":" ","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"British Poultry Science","FirstCategoryId":"97","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00071668.2025.2559003","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
1. In recent years, tannin has been used as a natural alternative to antibiotics due to its wide availability, ease of large-scale production and efficient extraction from other plants, compared with foreign additives such as plant essential oils and organic acids.2. Tannins are secondary metabolites widely existing in plants as a natural defence mechanism, which exhibit various bioactivities. In poultry, appropriate addition of tannins can enhance the growth performance and play a positive regulatory role in intestinal health, but inclusion in diets is limited by the bitter taste of tannins. However, 1 g/kg tannin in feed significantly reduced the final body weight of broilers and disrupted normal morphology in the intestinal tract.3. Data indicated that the effect of tannin was significantly influenced by its source and dosage, but these differences need to be confirmed. However, there is data showing tannin regulation of intestinal health in poultry, providing practical ideas on mechanism of action and commercial applications.
期刊介绍:
From its first volume in 1960, British Poultry Science has been a leading international journal for poultry scientists and advisers to the poultry industry throughout the world. Over 60% of the independently refereed papers published originate outside the UK. Most typically they report the results of biological studies with an experimental approach which either make an original contribution to fundamental science or are of obvious application to the industry. Subjects which are covered include: anatomy, embryology, biochemistry, biophysics, physiology, reproduction and genetics, behaviour, microbiology, endocrinology, nutrition, environmental science, food science, feeding stuffs and feeding, management and housing welfare, breeding, hatching, poultry meat and egg yields and quality.Papers that adopt a modelling approach or describe the scientific background to new equipment or apparatus directly relevant to the industry are also published. The journal also features rapid publication of Short Communications. Summaries of papers presented at the Spring Meeting of the UK Branch of the WPSA are published in British Poultry Abstracts .