CINNAMANALDEHYDE, BUT NOT THYMOL, COUNTERACTS THE CARBOXYMETHYL CELLULOSE INDUCED GROWTH DEPRESSION IN FEMALE BROILER CHICKENS

By Kyung-Woo Lee, H. Everts, H. Kappert. 2004

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The question addressed was whether dietary essential oils could antagonize the negative effect of Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) on growth performance in broilers. Diets without or with 1% CMC, and CMC containing diet with either 100 ppm thymol, cinnamaldehyde or a commercial essential oil blend were fed to female broiler chickens for 40 days. Chicks receiving the CMC diet showed significantly depressed weight gain for the period of 0 - 21 days. Addition of cinnamaldehyde or commercial essential oil to the CMC diet partially counteracted the negative effect on growth performance. Group mean feed intake was lower in CMC-fed chicks, but was raised when cinnamaldehyde or the commercial oil was added to the diet. Intestinal viscosity was increased by CMC inclusion, but was not lowered by the additives. Fat digestibility was significantly reduced by CMC, but cinnamaldehyde or commercial oil inclusion partially reversed this effect. This study indicates that cinnamaldehyde, but not thymol, may antagonize the negative effects of CMC on growth performance which may relate to improving fat digestibility.

Subfields: Animal Science and Zoology, Food Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Effect of dietary thyme oil and vitamin E on growth, lipid oxidation, meat fatty acid composition and serum lipoproteins of broilers (2006, background): “Lee et al. (2004), however, reported that thyme oil supplementation resulted in a decrease in the total cholesterol and triglyceride levels, but increased HDL-C.”
• Essential oils and their use in animal feeds for monogastric animals - effects on feed quality, gut microbiota, growth performance and food safety: a review. (2018, background): “In vitro studies also suggest that combination of individual EOs has a greater antibacterial effect than individual EOs alone, indicating a synergy between single activities (Burt 2004; Lee et al. 2004b).”
• Influence of two plant extracts derived from thyme and cinnamon on broiler performance. (2009, background): “Essential oils are complex compounds, and their chemical composition and concentrations of various compounds are variable (Lee et al., 2004).”
• Evaluation of cinnamon and garlic as antibiotic growth promoter substitutions on performance, immune responses, serum biochemical and haematological parameters in broiler chicks (2011, background): “(2003)didnot notice any significant differences in performance parameters for female broilers fed a diet supplemented with cinnamaldehyde, but in a subsequent experiment the authors noted that inclusion of 100 ppm cinnamaldehyde in female broilers diet could partially compensate the weight reduction”