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ReviewHeliyon2024

Effect of herbal extracts in animal nutrition as feed additives.

Wondimagegn Tadesse Alem

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Review in Heliyon, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Effect of Low-Fishmeal Feed Including an Olive Leaf Extract (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026
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  10. Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
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  12. Effect of Dietary Addition of Blueberry (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
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  17. Effects ofFrontiers in veterinary science · 2025
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  18. DietaryFrontiers in microbiomes · 2025
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  20. The effects ofFrontiers in veterinary science · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Wondimagegn Tadesse AlemDepartment of Animal Science, Kebri Dehar University, Ethiopia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper is reviewed with the objective to understand the effect of herbal extracts on animal performance as feed additives. The number of both external and internal factors which affects the production and productivity of animals obviously includes nutrition as a major factor. Feed additives are products used in animal nutrition to increase the quality of feed and animal-derived foods, as well as the performance and the health of animals. Plant extracts as feed additives are described as herbal-derived components added to ration to improve livestock performance and product quality. Many herbal extracts contain chemical components that have antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, anticoccidial and anthelmintic properties to improve ruminal microbial activity, diet palatability and stimulate digestion. Bioactive chemicals found in nature, such as flavonoids and glucosinolates isoprene derivatives, are primarily responsible for the qualities of plant extracts. Plant extracts are commonly added to feed to increase palatability, productivity and to inhibit lipid oxidation. When added to meals, herbal extracts aid to decrease rancidity, delay the generation of hazardous oxidation products, and retain nutritional quality. It is concluded that; herbal extracts are important to improve growth performance and product quality.

Indexed as

Feed additivesHerbal extractNutritionPerformanceProductivity

Identifiers

PMID38322944
PMCPMC10845724

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