Animal fat: Nutritious ingredient for animal diets

Adding a feed or oil ingredient supplies the animal with essential fatty acids, needed for production and growth. But the digestibility of the fatty acids can vary between animal species and age groups. The effectiveness of including a fat or oil also depends on the total feed formulation. In this article we explain what nutritionists should consider. In the past feed grade animal fat was derived as a slaughter by-product as well as from dead (recycled) animals. Nowadays in the EU (category 3)