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Agaricus bisporus belongs to the group of functional food supplements for both humans and domestic animals intended for human consumption. Due to the presence of bioactive ingredients such as polysaccharides, lipopolysaccharides, essential amino acids, peptides, glycoproteins, nucleosides, triterpenoids, lectins, fatty acids and their derivatives for these fungi are known anti- inflammatory, antiviral, antibacterial, hepatoprotective, anti- diabetic, hypolipemic, antithrombotic, hypotensive and synbiotic effects. On the model of monogastric animals kept in controlled, intensive production and fed with the Agaricus bisporus feed supplement showed: faster growth, lower food conversion, less disease, better survival rate of animals, increased leukocyte count, decreased serum cholesterol and glucose levels, reduced Escherichia coli and enterobacteria count in rectal smears as well as increase in the number of Lactobacillus spp. Based on the results obtained to date from the Croatian Science Foundation project “ Innovative functional lamb meat products “ (IP- 2016-06-3685) it is evident that the button mushroom added as a feed supplement for polygastric animals also has a positive effect on animal health and productivity as well as meat quality and aroma profile. It can be concluded that Agaricus bisporus in animals has a potential effect as growth promoters and scientifically proven applicable value as natural, functional feed supplement that can represent a commercially new and innovative product as functional food for humans. This study has been fully supported by the Croatian Science Foundation under the project “Innovative functional lamb meat products” (HRZZ‐IP‐06‐2016‐3685). |
