Betaine supplementation for better pig productivity

Natural betaine, obtained from sugar beet, has been long known to offer significant performance benefits to commercial animal producers. For pigs, especially the youngest ones, the compound works as an osmolyte and as an methyl donor. By Dave Hall, key account manager, Danisco Animal Nutrition, USA   Betaine can best be described as a trimethyl derivative of the amino acid glycine which naturally occurs in relatively large quantities in aquatic invertebrates and sugar beet. How do the modes of