Mineral Nutrition: More Isn't Always Better. Smarter Is.

Minerals are essential to animal health, nutrition and performance. But successful mineral nutrition is about more than simply adding more minerals to the feed. What matters is how those minerals are delivered.

In today’s sophisticated feed formulations, minerals coexist with vitamins, enzymes and other valuable ingredients. Interactions between these components can influence how effectively a formulation delivers its intended nutritional value. This is why it may be time to rethink mineral inclusion.

Protect the Mineral. Preserve the Formulation.

Calcium, zinc, iron, copper, manganese and selenium have important nutritional roles. But minerals don’t work in isolation.

Take the relationship between calcium, phosphorus, phytate and phytase. Research in growing pigs has shown that dietary calcium concentration can affect phytate degradation and phosphorus digestibility when phytase is used.

It raises an important question: Instead of simply asking how much mineral we should add, should we also be asking how we deliver it?

A Smarter Approach to Essential Minerals

This is where Jefo Matrix Technology® changes the conversation as it was designed to protect active ingredients and deliver them closer to where they are needed.

By microencapsulating individual essential minerals, we can take a more targeted approach to mineral nutrition and help protect minerals from unwanted interactions.

Protected Calcium.
Protected Iron.
Protected Zinc.
Protected Copper.
Protected Manganese.
Protected Selenium.

One mineral. One targeted solution. Greater control over your nutritional strategy.

Why Protected Minerals?

Modern animal nutrition is becoming increasingly precise. Minerals, enzymes, vitamins and other functional ingredients need to coexist within increasingly sophisticated formulations.

Jefo Matrix Technology® physically protects minerals within a three-dimensional lipid matrix and is designed to keep them protected during transit, with progressive release when exposed to intestinal enzymes. 

That creates a different way to think about mineral nutrition:

• Protect what you add.
• Deliver it where it matters.
• Make every mineral count.

For nutritionists, it means thinking beyond inclusion rates toward greater precision. For producers, it means focusing on the value of the complete formulation, not simply the quantity of minerals added. And for the industry, it opens the door to a smarter conversation about mineral efficiency and responsible nutrition.