ReviewAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2021
Effects of Dietary Fiber on Nutrients Utilization and Gut Health of Poultry: A Review of Challenges and Opportunities.
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73 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 149 citations in OpenAlex.
- Productive, internal organ and intestinal histomorphological characteristics of broiler chickens in response to dietary rapeseed meal: A meta-analysis.Journal of animal physiology and animal nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Non-starch polysaccharide-degrading enzymes improve intestinal health by reducing digesta viscosity and gut permeability in young broilers fed high-fiber diets.Veterinary and animal science · 2026Article
- In vitro study on the role of endoxylanase-driven fibre solubilisation and fibre particle size in improving fibre fermentation in broilers.Poultry science · 2026Article
- Corn husk meal as a sustainable dietary additive in biofloc-cultured koi carp (Cyprinus carpio var. koi): Integrative effects on growth performance, immune response, histology, gene expression, and ammonia-stress resilience.Veterinary research communications · 2026Article
- The effects of varying dietary electrolyte balance levels in canola meal-based diets on growth performance, ascites susceptibility, and nutrient digestibility in cold-stressed broilers.Veterinary and animal science · 2026Article
- Effects of Algae β-Glucan Supplementation on the Performance and Intestinal Immune System of Healthy Weaned Piglets.Journal of animal physiology and animal nutrition · 2026Article
- Spent hemp biomass in broiler diets: effects on performance, meat quality, expression of genes in internal adipose tissue, and corticosterone in feathers.Poultry science · 2026Article
- Dose-dependent effects of dietary Maotai distillers' grains on growth performance and selected intestinal responses in Pekin ducks.Poultry science · 2026Article
- Gut microbiota in poultry: Roles in nutrition, metabolism and production performance.Poultry science · 2026Review
- Vegetable trimming pellets in laying hen diets drive cecal remodeling and dose-dependent plasma-egg metabolomic dissociation.Poultry science · 2026Article
- Effects of Aspergillus sp. supplementation with or without xylanase on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, and the gastrointestinal microbiome of broilers.Poultry science · 2026Article
- A NEW FOCUS ON FIBER.Poultry science · 2026Review
- From Gut to Gain: The Microbiome's Contribution to Broiler Health and Productivity.Veterinary sciences · 2026Review
- Impact of soybean meal enzymatic treatment on chicken caecal microbiota and intestinal epithelial cells.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2026Article
- Enhancing the resistant starch content of cassava starch via heat-moisture treatment for application as a prebiotic in chicken feed.Veterinary and animal science · 2026Article
- Dietary supplementation with a multi-strainVeterinary and animal science · 2026Article
- Jejunal and pancreatic transcriptomic adaptations underpin enhanced performance in broilers fed sugarcane bagasse-supplemented diets.BMC genomics · 2026Article
- Nutritional value evaluation of solid-state fermented sorghum fed to meat ducks and its effects on growth performance and intestinal development.Poultry science · 2026Article
- Extensive particle size reduction of wheat bran increases the broiler's caecal fermentative capacity, but not bran fermentability ex vivo.Poultry science · 2026Article
- Dietary evaluation of Pleurotus ostreatus spent mushroom substrate on productivity, nutrient digestibility, egg quality, antioxidant status, and ovarian cytoprotective responses in laying hens.Poultry science · 2026Article
13 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Many fibrous ingredients incorporated in poultry feed to reduce production costs have low digestibility and cause poor growth in poultry. However, all plant-based fibers are not equal, and thus exert variable physiological effects on the birds, including but not limited to, digestibility, growth performance, and microbial fermentation. Several types of fibers, especially oligosaccharides, when supplemented in poultry diets in isolated form, exhibit prebiotic effects by enhancing beneficial gut microbiota, modulating gut immunity, boosting intestinal mucosal health, and increasing the production of short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) in the gut. Recently, poultry producers are also facing the challenge of limiting the use of antibiotic growth promoters (AGP) in poultry feed. In addition to other alternatives in use, exogenous non-starch polysaccharides digesting enzymes (NSPase) and prebiotics are being used to provide substrates to support the gut microbiome. We also conducted a meta-analysis of different studies conducted in similar experimental conditions to evaluate the variability and conclusiveness in effects of NSPase on growth performance of broilers fed fibrous ingredients. This review presents a holistic approach in discussing the existing challenges of incorporating high-fiber ingredients in poultry feed, as well as strategies to fully utilize the potential of such ingredients in improving feed efficiency and gut health of poultry.
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