GO OLIVEBIOME: Biotechnological development of pre and probiotics for animal feed (poultry and pork) from alperujo fiber and other horticultural by-products
- Type Grupo operativo
- Status In progress
- Execution 2024 -2027
- Scope Supraautonómico
- Autonomous community Cantabria; Galicia; Madrid, Comunidad de
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2023-2027
The objective of OLIVEBIOME is to add value to olive pomace by obtaining a product intended for animal feed for monogastric animals, where through biotechnological processes they allow obtaining a product with potential effect as a prebiotic and/or probiotic, which will be evaluated in pigs (transition piglets) and in poultry (broiler chickens).
The project involves a series of innovative activities, starting with the study of the prebiotic capacity of olive fibre together with that of vegetables such as green asparagus and artichokes against microbial strains with proven bioactivity in animal intestinal microbiota, developing semi-industrial fermentation systems and evaluating their effective activity. The management of olive by-products requires the development of new processes in the olive pomace industry that allow for their sustainable treatment.
Finally, the use of raw materials with prebiotic activity that imply significant improvements in the quality and health of the production of proteins of animal origin, without resorting to the use of antibiotics or synthetic zootechnical additives, represents a great advance.
The project aims at the chemical typing of olive fiber, to know the prebiotic and fermentative capacity with probiotics of the fiber extracted from the alperujo and other national horticultural by-products, the nutritional capacity of fermented raw materials as a basis for the development of a probiotic, to establish a fermentation model of raw materials with probiotic strains under laboratory conditions, design and scale-up of a bioreactor for the production of a probiotic from a selected raw material and prebiotic strain. Likewise, the impact of pre and/or probiotics designed on experimental pig and poultry farm models is established, to know the impact of pre and/or probiotics designed on thermal challenge models in pig and poultry farms and to have a sectoral report on the Spanish pomace industry, which reflects the historical series of alperujo production by autonomous communities and provinces.
- Chemical characterization of fiber in olive oil by-product raw materials.
- Evaluation of the prebiotic activity of alperujo fiber and other by-products of vegetables produced nationally as a basis for the fermentation of a probiotic.
- Nutritional characterization and fibrosity of fermented raw materials used for the design of a probiotic.
- Growth modeling of the best combination of raw materials and probiotic strains in the laboratory.
- Scaling up a production process of a probiotic from a microbial strain isolated from the olive through the fermentation of an olive by-product: conditioning of raw material, fermentation and stabilization of the prebiotic.
- Execution of proof of concept tests with final products in pigs and poultry and collection of samples to evaluate changes in the microbiome.
- Evaluation of final products (pre and probiotics) in validation tests (larger number of animals and under conditions representative of commercial management) with a thermal challenge on pigs and poultry.
- Study of the productive potential of alperujo in the Spanish olive oil industry as a national macro strategy for obtaining fiber for animal production.
The objective of the OLIVEBIOME project is to find the use of olive pomace, but providing added value, so work will be done on obtaining a product intended for animal feed for monogastric animals where, through biotechnological processes, it will be possible to obtain a product with a potential effect as a prebiotic and/or probiotic, which will be evaluated in pigs - in transition piglets - and in poultry - broiler chickens.
- Coordinator name: Galician University Business Foundation (FEUGA)
- Postal address: R/Lope Gómez de Marzoa S/N - Campus Vida, Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña
- Coordinator email: l.carbia@feuga.es
- Phone: +34 981534180
- Fundación Empresa Universidad Gallega (FEUGA)
- MASLINA INTERNATIONAL TRADE S.L.
- SAN MIGUEL ARCÁNGEL
- LUCTA
- Fundación Empresa Universidad Gallega (FEUGA)
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