The role of Hermetia illucens larvae fat in poultry nutrition - from the nutritive value to the health status of broiler chickens

2020/39/B/NZ9/00237

Keywords

Descriptors

  • NZ9_002: Naukowe podstawy zootechniki

Panel

NZ9 – Fundamentals of applied life sciences and biotechnology: agricultural, forestry, horticulture, animal production and fishery, food and nutrition sciences, industrial biosciences, environmental biotechnology and remediation

Host institution

Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu, Wydział Medycyny Weterynaryjnej i Nauk o Zwierzętach

Voivodeship: wielkopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution)

prof. Damian Tomasz Józefiak

Number of co-investigators in the project: 7

Call

OPUS 20 – announced on 2020-09-15

Amount awarded
1 893 640 PLN
Project start date
2021-07-02
Project end date
2026-07-01
Project duration
60 months (the same as in the proposal)
Project status
Pending project

Project description

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Information in the final report

Publication in academic press/journals (6)

  1. First report of the apparent metabolisable energy value of black soldier fly larvae fat used in broiler chicken diets.

    Authors:
    Bartosz Kierończyk, Mateusz Rawski, Kinga Super-Szablewska, Damian Józefiak
    Academic press:
    Animal (year: 2022, volume: 16, pages: 100656), Publisher: Elsevier B.V. on behalf of The Animal Consortium
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.animal.2022.100656 – link to the publication
  2. Insect fat influences broiler performance, meat quality, and the cecal microbiota similarly to plant oils rather than animal fats

    Authors:
    Muhammad Rumman Aslam, Bartosz Kierończyk, Mateusz Rawski, Piotr Szymkowiak , Kinga Stuper-Szablewska, Paweł Kołodziejski, Robert Mikuła, Agata Dankowiakowska, Damian Józefiak
    Academic press:
    Scientific Reports (year: 2025, volume: 15:18089, pages: 46038), Publisher: Springer Nature
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1038/s41598-025-02820-3 – link to the publication
  3. Available for millions of years but discovered through the last decade: Insects as a source of nutrients and energy in animal diets

    Authors:
    Bartosz Kierończyk, Mateusz Rawski, Zuzanna Mikołajczak, Natalia Homska, Jan Jankowski, Katarzyna Ognik, Agata Józefiak, Jan Mazurkiewicz, Damian Józefiak
    Academic press:
    Animal Nutrition (year: 2022, volume: 11, pages: 60-79), Publisher: Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. Ltd.
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.aninu.2022.06.015 – link to the publication
  4. Cecal microbiota of broilers responds similarly to black soldier fly larvae fat and conventional dietary fat sources

    Authors:
    Muhammad Rumman Aslam, Bartosz Kierończyk, Piotr Szymkowiak , Liliana Ciesielska, Mateusz Rawski, Robert Mikuła, Damian Józefiak
    Academic press:
    PLOS One (year: 2025, volume: 11: e0336523, pages: 46037), Publisher: PLOS One
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1371/journal.pone.0336523 – link to the publication
  5. Black soldier fly larva fat in broiler chicken diets affects breast meat quality

    Authors:
    Bartosz Kierończyk, Mateusz Rawski, Zuzanna Mikołajczak, Piotr Szymkowiak, Kinga Stuper-Szablewska, Damian Józefiak
    Academic press:
    Animals (year: 2023, volume: 13, pages: 1137), Publisher: MDPI
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3390/ani13071137 – link to the publication
  6. Implementation of a metabolizable energy regression model for black soldier fly larvae fat in broiler chicken diets: effect on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, and selected physiological indices.

    Authors:
    Bartosz Kierończyk, Sebastian Kaczmarek, Marcin Hejdysz, Piotr Szymkowiak, Muhammad Rumman Aslam, Mateusz Rawski, Paweł Kołodziejski, Robert Mikuła, Kinga Stuper-Szablewska, Damian Józefiak
    Academic press:
    Journal of Animal and Feed Sciences (year: 2024, volume: 33, pages: 493-503), Publisher: the Kielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition, Polish Academy of Sciences in Jabłonna
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.22358/jafs/187805/2024 – link to the publication

Articles in post-conference publications (5)

  1. The effect of dietary fats and insect oil inclusion in broiler diets on the gastrointestinal tract microbiota

    Authors:
    Bartosz Kierończyk, Piotr Szymkowiak, Muhammad Rumman Aslam, Mateusz Rawski, Damian Józefiak
    Conference:
    Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, Vol. 10 - Supplement 1, ISSN 2352-4588 (year: 2024, volume: Insects to Feed the World 2024, pages: S174), Publisher: Brill Wageningen Academic
    Date:
    conference 19-22.06.2024
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1163/23524588-20241013 – link to the publication
  2. Hermetia illucens larva fat affects broiler chicken breast meat quality

    Authors:
    Bartosz Kierończyk, Mateusz Rawski, Piotr Szymkowiak, Kinga Stuper-Szablewska, Damian Józefiak
    Conference:
    Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, Vol. 10 - Supplement 1, ISSN 2352-4588 (year: 2024, volume: Insects to Feed the World 2024, pages: S173), Publisher: Brill Wageningen Academic
    Date:
    conference 16-22.06.2024
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1163/23524588-20241013 – link to the publication
  3. Effects of selected dietary fat inclusion in broiler diets on growth performance, digestibility, and meat quality

    Authors:
    Bartosz Kierończyk, Muhammad Rumman Aslam, Piotr Szymkowiak, Mateusz Rawski, Damian Józefiak
    Conference:
    Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, Vol. 10 - Supplement 1, ISSN 2352-4588 (year: 2024, volume: Insects to Feed the World 2024, pages: S175), Publisher: Brill Wageningen Academic
    Date:
    conference 19-22.06.2024
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1163/23524588-20241013 – link to the publication
  4. Black soldier fly larvae fat affects the microecosystem of the broiler chicken gastrointestinal tract.

    Authors:
    Bartosz Kierończyk, Mateusz Rawski, Zuzanna Mikołajczak Agata Józefiak, Damian Józefiak
    Conference:
    Journal of Insects as Food and Feed Supplement 1, eISSN 2352-4588 (year: 2022, volume: Insects to Feed the World 2022, pages: 45), Publisher: Wageningen Academic Publishers
    Date:
    conference 12-16.06.2022
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3920/jiff2022.s1 – link to the publication
  5. Black soldier fly larvae fat metabolizable energy value implemented in broiler chicken diets

    Authors:
    Bartosz Kierończyk, Mateusz Rawski, Piotr Szymkowiak, Kinga Stuper-Szablewska, Damian Józefiak
    Conference:
    Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, Vol.10 - Supplement 1, ISSN 2352-4588 (year: 2024, volume: Insects to Feed the World 2024, pages: S172), Publisher: Brill Wageningen Academic
    Date:
    conference 19-22.06.2024
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1163/23524588-20241013 – link to the publication

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