Objective:
Nature has been the source of aromatic plants and herbs for thousands of years, and their use as medicines, enhancers of food aroma, preservatives, or cosmetics is well known from antiquity. However, the great development of animal product industry, in combination with the growing consumers’ demand for higher quality and more environmentally friendly products during the later years, led the food industry to begin to search for alternative solutions in animal nutrition. The introduction of aromatic plants as natural feed additives can be considered as one of them.
Context:
In this framework, we collected all the current existing knowledge concerning the uses of aromatic and medicinal plants in animal nutrition in one book titled “Feed Additives: Aromatic Plants and Herbs in Animal Nutrition and Health”. The book consists of 19 chapters in total and it summarizes the existing knowledge of the use of aromatic plants in animal nutrition.
Contacts:
Ilias Giannenas igiannenas@vet.auth.gr, https://qa.auth.gr/el/cv/igiannenas,
Efterpi Christaki, efchris@vet.auth.gr, https://users.auth.gr/efchris?lang=en
Panagiota Florou-Paneri, ppaneri@vet.auth.gr, https://users.auth.gr/ppaneri?lang=en