sucram - the essential ingredient for extra profits

Originally developed to stimulate increased feed intakes by the young piglet, SUCRAM has grown rapidly to be the global leading sweetening palatant used now in a wide range of different animal feeds.

Whilst piglet starter feeds are still the main market, new applications for SUCRAM have proven extremely successful. For example, in diets for calves and lambs after weaning, gestating and lactating sows, feedlot receiving calves and as a replacer of a proportion of molasses in compound feed.We have recently published a meta-analysis of all the trials with SUCRAM in piglet starter feeds.

This clearly demonstrates the significant effect of SUCRAM at different dosages on feed intake (see table right).Today this effect is even more important as formulations may be changed due to rising raw material prices, which could reduce feed palatability. More details on SUCRAM meta-analysis are available at www.pancosma.com.

Our latest development SUCRAM 3D incorporates the following research and commercial objectives taking into account changing market conditions.

• To utilise new micro-ingredients which when combined with a high intensity sweetener increase appetite stimulation over and above that which can be achieved with traditional sweeteners.
• To be less dependent on a single raw material e.g. Sodium Saccharin, which is limited in its ability to fully exploit the animal’s potential intake capacity.
• To bring together all the animal’s sensations associated with sweet and aromatic tastes and mouth-feel sensations creating the SYNESTHESIA effect.
  
• To give the feed manufacturer a “ better cost” solution by different means:
• By developing a SUCRAM formulation, which when taking into account the increase in raw material prices, will cost no more as a percentage of the total ration cost.
• By increasing the palatability of specific raw materials allows for higher inclusion rates, more flexible formulations and potential cost savings.

The temptation today in the feed industry is to focus on reducing formulation costs by removing some feed additives. We are confident that SUCRAM will always provide economic benefits. The investment in new technology needed to develop SUCRAM 3D enables cost savings to be passed onto our customers, whilst at the same time, providing a potentially more effective product and better animal performance.