Nutritional composition for increasing milk protein in mammals

Abstract

It is described a process to obtain increased milk production and/or greater milk protein concentration using supplements with a fatty acid mixture or through production of specific fatty acids within the animal. The process or the supplementation of the product described in this invention (supplements formulated with fatty acids mixtures and with adequate levels of metabolizable protein) allows greater efficiency and/or better quality and/or a healthier mammal with improved productivity. The process includes supplementation of specific types of fatty acids with or without ruminal protection to ruminants and, generally, a diet with metabolizable protein energy ratio greater than the one suggested by the state of the art. The process may include the production of the said compounds (conjugated fatty acids) on the animal itself from fat, certain compounds and microorganisms added to the diet capable of modifying the environment of the gut. The supplementation includes offering fatty acids capable of altering animal metabolism, as well as offering normal fatty acids (which do not change metabolism which, given some conditions in the rumen environment, can change their molecular structure and transform themselves in fatty acids capable of affecting tissue metabolism (including increasing protein content and yield). Both, the offering of the fatty acid with metabolic effects, as well as the production of these active fatty acids in the gut, make possible increases in the concentration and/or production of milk protein.

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AREA OF THE INVENTION [0001] This invention refers to a process for obtaining increased milk production and / or increased concentration of protein in milk, also improving reproductive performance using a mixture of fatty acids with or without additional proteins and which will be used in agriculture and animal nutrition (including human beings), enabling higher levels of milk and / or protein production per area and / or per animal and / or per period of time and / or in each lactation period. The process allows for an increase in the concentration of protein in milk and or increased milk production depending on the conditions of the production system as described in different examples. The process also allows for improved industrial dairy product quality and yields. BASIS OF THE INVENTION [0002] This invention pertains to the area of human or animal nutrition, with excellent possibilities for the production of ruminant feed supplements and a process for obtaining higher levels and productio...

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Benefits of technology

[0035] The supplementation may involve supplying fatty acids, which alter the animal's metabolism, or along with the supply of inert fatty acids which, because of ruminal conditions, can change their molecular structure and become fatty acids which alter metabolism. Both the supply of fatty acids which have a metabolic effect and the production of this fatty acid in the digestive tract enables substantial increase in the level and/or production of milk proteins.

[0036] The significant ...

Problems solved by technology

Despite the ability to use dietary formulation to reduce the level of fat in milk, this type of approach has several inconvenient circumstances, such as th...

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