Nanobubble technology to generate nutritional solutions for healthy pigs (2026-2029)

Zinc is an essential nutrient for proper growth and body development and its deficiency causes impaired growth, gut integrity, and immune function. The minimum requirement of zinc for piglets immediately after weaning has not been well-studied. Moreover, it is not clear by which mechanisms, dietary zinc changes from being a nutrient to a pharmaceutical agent when used at high doses to manage post-weaning diarrhoea. This project aims to investigate the minimum zinc requirements as a nutrient to support optimum growth, immune function, and gut integrity, as well as the mode of actions of medicinal doses of zinc and evaluate the nutritional solutions generated by innovative nanobubble technology to replace medicinal zinc in the pig¿s feed.