Essential oil is a natural,volatile and water-insoluble secondary metabolite extracted from plant tis-sues by distillation and supercritical fluid.Encapsulation of essential oils can overcome the limitations of essen-tial oils such as strong volatilization and easy degradation,as well as enhance their bioactivity,in order to im-prove animal performance and health in livestock and poultry production.This paper mainly reviews the meth-ods of preparing nano-capsules of essential oils,their biological activity and application in livestock production,which provides a theoretical basis for the future preparation of essential oil capsules and their application in live-stock production.[Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition,2024,36(7):4191-4200]
关键词
植物精油/纳米胶囊化/畜禽生产/应用
Key words
essential oils/nanoencapsulation/livestock and poultry production/application