The diet in modern poultry farming is provided with higher nutrients and energy concentration
Inadequate bile secretion in young age
Without emulsification lipase cannot act
Reduced marketing age of broilers
With increase in oil content in the diet and the age of bird, the bile secretion does not increase linearly
Long chain fatty acids are more hydrophobic and are poorly absorbed without micelle formation
Non starchy polysaccharides in feed increases the intestinal viscosity which may have the negative impact on the digestibility of nutrients including lipids
Possesses significantly higher concentration of lysophosphatidylcholine
Enhances efficient emulsification and thereby produces maximum number of smaller and stable micelles
Enhances intestinal permeability resulting in better absorption of all the nutrients
It has more hydrophilic ends, therefore helps in better emulsification
It improves digestibility of other nutrients and enhances absorption of fat-soluble nutrients, Therefore, there is genuine need of providing biosurfactants / emulsifiers through diet to maximise the bio-availability of provided nutrients which otherwise may have gone waste due to limited production of endogenic biosurfactant
