Effects of Feeding Garlic and Juniper Berry Essential Oils on Milk Fatty Acid Composition of Dairy Cows

Essential oils (EOs) from plant extracts have been reported to have an antibacterial activity against gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. Several of the gram-positive bacteria are involved in ruminal biohydrogenation of fatty acids (FAs), thus suggesting that feeding EOs could lower biohydroge...

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Main Authors: Wen Zhu Yang, Mao Long He
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-01-01
Series:Nutrition and Metabolic Insights
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4137/NMI.S33395