Functional nutrition intervenes in cases caused by dysmetabolism, to solve the problem and restore the optimal nutritional regime of the farm or of the individual animal.

It is necessary to resort to functional nutrition:

• as an exception to basic nutritional needs;
• in the event of spoiled feeds or feeds containing anti-nutritional factors;
• to assist in preventing and resolving nutritional errors and dysmetabolies related to environmental and physiological stress factors;
• when probiotics or prebiotics are needed for the gastrointestinal tract of young animals.