Binding butyric acid to glycerol

Gut health is essential for high producing production animals to reach their genetic growth potential. Today, there is a tremendous amount of options to improve gut health with feed additives. One of these options is the addition of butyric acid. The incredibly bad smell of butyric acid makes it difficult to apply this acid in practice. As a solution, feed additive producers came up with salts of butyric acid. These salts, however, will turn into butyric acid in the acidic environment of the st