Feed Solutions · Flavours and sweeteners
The sweet taste that keeps them eating.
Sweet to the pig
Sweetness pigs actually perceive: their sweet receptor is not ours, and the molecules are chosen for it.
Onset and persistence
Two high-intensity sweeteners combined for a clean, lasting sweet taste.
Grams per tonne
What counts is the cost per tonne of finished feed.
A high-intensity sweetener gives feed a sweet taste at a very low inclusion rate, being several hundred times sweeter than sucrose, so that the animal keeps eating. Linkasweet combines two of them for piglet and pig feed, always added through a premix.
The problem
Pigs have a strong liking for sweetness, and piglets get it from their mother’s milk. At weaning, when dry feed replaces milk, a clean sweet taste helps intake get going. It also covers the bitterness of the minerals and acids in the formula.
Poultry lack the sweet receptor that high-intensity sweeteners act on: their palatability depends on the smell and texture of the feed. That is the territory of flavours, such as Linkasty.
The whole subject of palatability, flavours and sweeteners, is on the feed flavours and sweeteners page.
The principle
A high-intensity sweetener works on taste, and so on the decision to keep eating.
The grades
Both grades combine the same high-intensity sweeteners. We tell you which one suits your line.
| Grade | Use | Indicative rate |
|---|---|---|
| linkasweet MXPowder · 25 kg bag, double aluminium foil | High-intensity sweetener for creep, piglet and pig feed, added through the premix. | Pigs: 80–150 g/t |
| linkasweet STPowder · 25 kg bag, double aluminium foil | The same combination in another presentation, depending on your premix line. | Pigs: 80–150 g/t |
Indicative rate, taken from the current technical data sheet. Always through a premix, never directly into the main mixer.
Trial results available on request.Ask for the trial results →
High-intensity sweeteners for feed do not have the same status everywhere: a molecule allowed in one market may not be, or may no longer be, in another, and each country keeps its own list.
Linkasweet is for markets that authorise its ingredients: we check your country before any offer.
For calves and other cattle, tell us about your feed: whether a sweetener makes sense, and at what rate, is decided case by case, on the formula and the market.
In practice
Sensory additives, sweeteners. Each molecule is checked for the destination market: data sheet, safety data sheet and status in your country, on request.
Flavours and sweeteners
linkasweet
Species, stage, formula and destination country: we check that Linkasweet can be used there and propose a rate.
Ask about Linkasweet →Send us the feed that is not being eaten →No. Its two high-intensity sweeteners give a sweet taste at a very low rate, with no meaningful energy supply to the diet.
Because the rate is very low. Added directly to the main mixer, the sweetener would spread badly; the premix dilutes it first, then the mixer distributes it across the whole feed.
A sweetener works on taste, and so on the decision to keep eating; a flavour works on smell, and so on the decision to approach the feed. In piglets the two are often combined: see Linkasty.