Do You Know How Much about Hawthorn Powder?

Do You Know How Much about Hawthorn Powder?

Hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida Bunge), also known as bergamot and crimson, is a deciduous tree of Hawthorn in Rosaceae, with a height of up to 6 meters. Stone fruit has hard nucleus, thin pulp and slightly sour taste. The fruit can be eaten raw or used as preserved fruit cake. It can be used as medicine after drying. It is a unique tree species for both medicine and fruit in China. It has the effects of reducing blood lipid, blood pressure, strengthening heart and anti arrhythmia. At the same time, it is also a good medicine for strengthening spleen and appetizer, eliminating food stagnation, promoting blood circulation and resolving phlegm. It has a good effect on chest, diaphragm and spleen fullness, hernia, blood stasis, amenorrhea and so on.

Hawthorn powder is made of hawthorn as the main raw material through special processing. It is natural green and pollution-free. Its main components contain a lot of organic acids, carotene, vitamin C and trace elements. In addition, it also contains a certain amount of protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, etc. Hawthorn powder is usually used in daily life, such as medical and health care products, food products, feed products, etc. Among them, it is most widely used in feed products.

The main functions of hawthorn powder widely used in feed are as follows:

① Hawthorn is an ideal natural compound organic acid supply source, which can enhance the palatability of feed, improving the feed intake of livestock and poultry and the speed of fat growth and weight gain;

② Improving the digestibility of protein and fat in feed and reducing feed consumption;

③ Quercetin and rutin, the flavonoids in hawthorn, have certain antioxidant effects, can improve the activity of antioxidant enzymes in animals, and can reduce malondialdehyde (MDA). They work together to improve the total antioxidant performance of the body;

④ Reducing gastrointestinal bacterial infectious diseases of pigs and chickens, improving the survival rate of chickens and piglets, reducing the occurrence of ascites disease of Broilers and fatty liver of laying hens, or cooperating with other drugs to improve stomach food accumulation, dyspepsia, diarrhea and other diseases;

⑤ Making fattening pigs have strong appetite, like to sleep and move less, soft and bright feces and good digestion;

⑥ The feed for sows before and after farrowing can significantly improve the feed intake and digestibility of sows, increasing the milk yield, and improving the growth rate and survival rate of piglets.

The above introduced are main functions of the hawthorn powder in feed.