Dietary Passion Fruit Seed Oil Supplementation for Health and Performance of Laying Hens

Laís Garcia Cordeiro (), Paola Aparecida Damázio Rodrigues, Gabrieli Andressa de Lima, Elis Omar Figueroa Castillo, Joyce Andrade da Silva, Júlia de Lima Lopes, Anna Luísa Lang, Samir Moura Kadri, Antônio Celso Pezzato and José Roberto Sartori
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Laís Garcia Cordeiro: Department of Animal Breeding and Nutrition, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu 18618-681, SP, Brazil
Paola Aparecida Damázio Rodrigues: Department of Animal Breeding and Nutrition, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu 18618-681, SP, Brazil
Gabrieli Andressa de Lima: Department of Animal Breeding and Nutrition, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu 18618-681, SP, Brazil
Elis Omar Figueroa Castillo: Department of Animal Breeding and Nutrition, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu 18618-681, SP, Brazil
Joyce Andrade da Silva: Department of Animal Breeding and Nutrition, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu 18618-681, SP, Brazil
Júlia de Lima Lopes: Department of Animal Breeding and Nutrition, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu 18618-681, SP, Brazil
Anna Luísa Lang: Department of Animal Breeding and Nutrition, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu 18618-681, SP, Brazil
Samir Moura Kadri: Department of Animal Production, School of Technology and Agricultural Sciences, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Dracena 17915-899, SP, Brazil
Antônio Celso Pezzato: Department of Animal Breeding and Nutrition, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu 18618-681, SP, Brazil
José Roberto Sartori: Department of Animal Breeding and Nutrition, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu 18618-681, SP, Brazil

Agriculture, 2025, vol. 15, issue 8, 1-17

Abstract: Passion fruit seed oil (PFSO) is rich in bioactive compounds, which can enhance laying hens’ health and performance. The current study was conducted to investigate the effect of increasing PFSO supplementation in laying hens’ productive performance, egg quality, relative weight and length of organs, plasma lipid oxidation, antioxidant status, and gene expression of SOD, GPx, CAT, and NRF2 in the liver. One hundred ninety-two 25-week-old Lohmann Whites were randomly divided into three treatments ( n = 8 replicates/diet, 8 hens/replicate). The groups were fed a corn–soybean basal diet containing 0.00%, 0.45%, and 0.90% PFSO for 16 weeks. The results indicated that increasing supplementation of PFSO decreased plasma lipid oxidation ( n = 8; linear, p = 0.012) and increased CAT gene expression ( n = 8; linear, p = 0.001). SOD and NRF2 genes tended to increase linearly, and GPx was not affected ( n = 4; p > 0.05). The CAT activity tended to decrease linearly and the SOD and GPx were not affected ( n = 8; p > 0.05) by diets. Performance and most egg quality, relative weight, and length of organs did not differ among treatments ( n = 8; p > 0.05). Therefore, increasing the supplementation of PFSO in the diet may have positive effects on the laying hens’ health by decreasing oxidative stress, stimulating the antioxidant defense system, and sustaining egg production and quality.

Keywords: functional feed; gene expression; laying hens; malonaldehyde; oxidative stress; Passiflora; poultry nutrition; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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