Extrusion: the good, the bad, and the ugly side

Extrusion of ingredients and complete diets is a thermal processing method that involves progressively increasing pressure, friction, and attrition as material passes through the extruder barrel. Extrusion offers numerous benefits in diet preparation for young pigs, among which the following are included: starch gelatinisation, protein denaturation, destruction of certain antinutritional factors, microbial decontamination, and dehydration. Reduction of nutritive value However, overprocessing m