A microencapsulated blend of botanicals and organic acids can improve growth performance and gut health of broilers

Botanicals and organic acids (OA) are widely used in poultry nutrition based on their numerous biological functions. Our previous work showed that a specific blend of botanicals and OA can improve intestinal health in vitro (Toschi et al., 2020). In this study, the same blend, microencapsulated in a lipid matrix (commercially known as AviPlus®P), was fed to broilers to evaluate the effects on growth performance and gut health in vivo.