Rossi Raffaella, Mainardi Edda, Vizzarri Francesco, Corino Carlo
Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Università Degli Studi di Milano, Via Dell'Università 6, 26900 Lodi, Italy.
National Agricultural and Food Centre Nitra, Hlohovecká 2, 95141 Lužianky, Slovakia.
Antioxidants (Basel). 2023 Dec 24;13(1):39. doi: 10.3390/antiox13010039.
In recent years, the search for dietary intervention with natural products able to sustain animal health and decrease environmental impact, has raised the number of studies pertaining to the use of plants' secondary metabolites. In fact, in livestock, there is a clear relationship between the animals' antioxidant status and the onset of some diseases that negatively affect animal welfare, health, and productive performance. An interesting compound that belongs to the secondary metabolites family of plants, named phenylpropanoids, is verbascoside. The genus , which includes more than 233 plant species, is the genus in which this compound was first identified, but it has also been found in other plant extracts. Verbascoside exhibits several properties such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, chemopreventive, and neuroprotective properties, that have been evaluated mainly in in vitro studies for human health. The present work reviews the literature on the dietary integration of plant extracts containing verbascoside in livestock. The effects of dietary plant extracts containing verbascoside on the productive performance, antioxidant status, blood parameters, and meat quality in several animal species were evaluated. The present data point out that dietary plant extracts containing verbascoside appear to be a favorable dietary intervention to enhance health, antioxidant status, and product quality in livestock.
近年来，寻找能够维持动物健康并减少环境影响的天然产物饮食干预方法，增加了与植物次生代谢产物使用相关的研究数量。事实上，在牲畜中，动物的抗氧化状态与一些对动物福利、健康和生产性能产生负面影响的疾病的发生之间存在明显的关系。一种属于植物次生代谢产物家族的有趣化合物，称为苯丙素类化合物，是毛蕊花糖苷。该化合物最初是在包含233种以上植物物种的属中被鉴定出来的，但在其他植物提取物中也有发现。毛蕊花糖苷具有多种特性，如抗氧化、抗炎、化学预防和神经保护特性，这些特性主要在针对人类健康的体外研究中得到评估。本研究综述了关于在牲畜饲料中添加含毛蕊花糖苷植物提取物的文献。评估了含毛蕊花糖苷的植物提取物饲料对几种动物物种的生产性能、抗氧化状态、血液参数和肉质的影响。目前的数据表明，含毛蕊花糖苷的植物提取物饲料似乎是一种有利于提高牲畜健康、抗氧化状态和产品质量的饮食干预措施。
