The necessity of flavourings in animal production

Flavourings have been used for many years in animal feed in order to guarantee its palatability. However, flavourings can go beyond just the aromatic note and bring functionalities to help animal production. How can flavourings be beneficial to animal production? Animals are far more equipped than humans to smell and to taste what they eat. For example, a cow has 20,000 taste buds, when humans have only around 4600. The olfactory epithelium, essential to smell and taste, has a surface of around