Chromium Picolinate Amino Acid Protein Chromium Animal Pet Feed Additive

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Chromium Picolinate Amino Acid Protein Chromium Animal Pet Feed Additive

Chromium is an essential trace mineral that is mainly involved in the metabolism of glucose. Chromium enhances the action of insulin by promoting the binding of insulin to receptors, thereby increasing the utilization of glucose. Commonly used feed ingredients in pig feed contain large amounts of chromium, ranging from 1,000 to 3,000 ppb, but bioavailability is usually low. The bioavailability and utilization of organic chromium sources (such as amino acid chelated chromium) in pig diets is higher than that of inorganic chromium sources (such as chromium chloride). According to a letter of no objection from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the law allows the use of chromium sources up to 200 ppb in pig diets. Dietary chromium supplementation is most commonly used in fattening pigs and sows.

Biological functions

  The biological function of chromium lies mainly in its composition of GTF as Cr3+, which assists insulin to function and affects sugar, lipid, protein and nucleic acid metabolism. Chromium is an essential element for insulin to function during glucose metabolism. Chromium can also affect the metabolism of animals by regulating the efficiency of insulin action and improve the immune function of animals, etc.

Chromium and sugar metabolism

  In addition, the sugars obtained by animals from feeds are biooxidized into glucose in the body, and the enzymatic catalysis of glucose phosphate translocase is required for glucose enzymes in the body for energy supply, and the synergistic effect of Cr3+ and Mn2+ has the effect of initiating and enhancing the activity of this enzyme to promote glucose enzymes for energy supply.

When animals eat organochromium-rich diets, organochromium is absorbed by the body and enhances the function of insulin, which accelerates the migration rate of glucose in the blood, i.e. glucose is rapidly transferred from the liver to other tissues and utilized.

Chromium and lipid metabolism

  The role of chromium on lipid metabolism is mainly to maintain the balance of cholesterol in blood, influence the synthesis of fat and cholesterol in animal liver and the vitality of lipid synthesis and decomposition enzymes in adipose tissue, and promote the redistribution of fat. Chromium supplementation in production is mainly through the regulation of various lipoprotein content and cholesterol metabolism to produce beneficial regulation and improvement of the body's lipid metabolism. Trivalent chromium mainly affects the synthesis and clearance of fat and cholesterol in the liver of animals and promotes the redistribution of fat, which in turn increases the level of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) in the blood and suppresses the serum cholesterol level.

  Abraham et al. reported that after feeding animals a high cholesterol diet to induce atherosclerosis and then supplementing the diet with chromium, it was found that the arterial plaque was significantly reduced and the arterial cholesterol level was also significantly reduced.

Chromium and protein and nucleic acid metabolism

  The main effect of chromium on amino acids is to promote the entry of amino acids into cells, thus improving protein synthesis.

Chromium binds to pyrophosphates, nucleoproteins, glycine, methionine and serine in animal blood, accelerating the entry of these amino acids into cells, promoting intracellular protein and nucleic acid synthesis, prompting partial utilization of urea nitrogen in blood as a nitrogen source for amino acid and protein synthesis, and enhancing protein synthesis and deposition.

Chromium is more abundant in nucleic acids, affecting the synthesis of nucleoproteins, RNA and nucleic acids, protecting RNA from thermal denaturation, and helping to maintain the structural integrity and stability of nucleic acids.

  The addition of yeast chromium to broiler duck diets reduced dry matter excretion by 15.52%, reduced protein excretion by 9.72% and increased nitrogen retention.

Application field

This product is only used as an animal feed additive.

Not recommended for food, health products and other fields.

Chromium can maintain the content of normal cholesterol in the blood and affect the synthesis and clearance of fat and cholesterol in animal liver. If the body lacks chromium, the activity of insulin will be significantly reduced, resulting in the disorder of lipid metabolism. After chromium supplementation, it can not only enhance the activity of insulin, regulate lipid metabolism and improve lipid status. Moreover, it can enhance the activities of lipoprotein lipase (LPL) and lecithin cholesterol acyl transferase (LCAT), and make these two enzymes participate in the synthesis of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), thus regulating lipid metabolism.