How do shell animals healthier?
Shellfish such as oysters and mussels are quite nutritious. By feeding with a vitamin-containing microcapsules, this can be still improve and shellfish provide about one hundred times more Vitamin-A, and about 150 times more Vitamin D than normal oysters.
In the investigation of the internationally renowned University of Cambridge is a newly developed food Supplement for shellfish has been tested, what its nutrient content is massively increased. The results were published in the English scientific journal “Frontiers in Nutrition”.
Why nutrients from food are better
Although a intake of nutrients in the form of tablets can help in an emergency, the nutrients are absorbed the best by our body, if you are part of the food consumed. Against this Background, it has now been developed is a food Supplement for shellfish, which the nutrient content is radically increases.
When were fed the micro-capsules?
These with vitamin-enriched micro-designed capsules are in a size and shape that they are, according to the researchers, is particularly attractive for the targeted shellfish. The capsules should be fed towards the end of the so-called cleaning phase, for a period of eight hours, when the cultured mussels are kept in pools according to their harvest in a Cleaning.
Micro-capsules increased vitamin values of solid
In laboratory studies, it was found that oysters delivered to the feeding of the capsules is about 100 times more Vitamin A than normal oysters and about 150 times more Vitamin D, report the researchers. This exceeded even the vitamin values of salmon, which is known to be a good source for vitamins.
The consumption of only two oysters per day, supplied enough Vitamin A and Vitamin D for an adult human. In addition, the purchase of appropriate shellfish is likely to be significantly cheaper than buying multi-vitamin tablets for human consumption, explain the researchers.
Micro-capsules for health and the environment
The feeding with enriched micro-a cheaper and more effective way to micro-nutrients a sustainable add protein source capsules. The targeted use of this technology in regions that are most affected by nutrient deficiency, the use of carefully selected shellfish species and micro-nutrients could help to improve the health of millions of people and reducing the damage that meat production of environmental causes, says the research group. (as)