The fundamental active ingredients within our products are saponins and glycocomponents.

Saponins have high tensoactive properties and as such, they play an important role in animal nutrition. The saponins’ powerful surfactant property increase the permeability of the cell membrane of the intestinal wall and allows a better absorption of nutrients, in addition to accelerating the microbial activity of the normal intestinal flora, improving digestion and the utilization of feed.

Glycocomponents are highly thermo stable molecular structures, which have an affinity for and the ability to bind ammonia molecules within the digestive tract and metabolic process, neutralizing its toxic and harmful effects. These compounds convert free ammonia by a physical and not a chemical process, into a non-toxic nitrogenous compound, thus improving environmental conditions allowing the normal flora to increase its activity to degrade organic material within the intestines, resulting in a more complete and efficient digestion.

Consequently, these effects reduce the emission of ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and other toxic gases, which are produced in the degradation process of animal waste, into the environment. These effects are also beneficial to the environmental conditions of confinement units, and as a result improve productivity parameters for animal production.

Glycocomponents are complex, highly thermo stable, molecules that include some compounds of sugars or glycosides. These molecules have an affinity to join ammonia, bind and neutralize it; Thus, reducing the high levels of this toxic element. The mechanism of action is through the physical molecular union of these compounds with ammonia.

The effect of glycocomponents within our Yucca schidigera products begins immediately from the digestion of food in the digestive tract of the animal, where the ammonia is first neutralized and the concentration is reduced; allowing for a better absorption of nutrients, because there is no interference within the intestinal membrane. In addition, to decreasing ammonia levels, glycocomponents also improve the conditions surrounding the intestinal flora; increasing its degradation activity, resulting in a more complete digestion.

Glycocomponents also reduce the emission of ammonia into the environment derived from feces and urine, thus improving environmental conditions of confinement houses, pens, and the surrounding area, also improving productive parameters and the general health of animals.

Saponins are glycosides that occur naturally in the Yucca schidigera plant. Its name is derived precisely from the Latin word “sapo” meaning soap describing its ability to form stable foam similar to soap in aqueous solutions. This characteristic is easily observable, and has been the original interest for Yucca schidigera since ancient times.

Saponins have highly surfactant or detergent-like properties, as they are amphipathic, meaning they have a water-soluble and fat-soluble component. Saponins represent a very important role in animal nutrition having these tensoactive properties.

The saponins found in our products, increase the permeability of the cells in the intestinal wall, allowing greater absorption of nutrients, and in addition, they accelerate the natural microbial activity within the intestinal flora resulting in better feed digestion, which translates into a higher productivity index in the animal.

Products made with Yucca schidigera increase productive parameters such as feed conversion, weight gain and improve the productivity of animals.

Ammonia is a highly toxic, irritant, colorless soluble gas that naturally occurs in the metabolic process of digestion. It is also a causative agent of damage in the mucosa of the respiratory and ocular systems of animals. A harmful secondary effect of ammonia is carried out when the ammonia enters the circulatory system of animals, causing damage within pulmonary membranes possibly causing animal mortality.

Glycocomponents have the ability to bind ammonia molecules in the intestinal tract, neutralizing the harmful effects of ammonia and converting it into a non-toxic nitrogenous compound. When the glycocomponent-ammonia compound is formed, it can be used by the microorganisms of intestinal flora as a nitrogen source, therefore, improving digestion. Also, when ammonia is bound by the glycocomponents, the ammonia does not interfere in a harmful manner with the absorption of nutrients through the intestinal wall.

An important part of the biological effects of saponins in animals is due to its effects on cell membranes in the intestinal wall.

Saponins have the specific ability to form pores in the membranes, which allow the membrane to be more permeable and facilitate the absorption of nutrients from food through the intestinal wall.

The mechanism is relatively simple, first of all, cholesterol and saponins form a bond within the membrane, thereby, forming a trans-membranal pore.

These small pores do not have a negative effect on the integrity of the cell membrane of the intestinal wall; they only allow and facilitate the absorption of nutrients increasing the benefits from the food the animals eat.