Simple Summary Fishmeal remains a key functional ingredient in aquafeeds, yet its limited availability and price volatility have accelerated the transition toward low-fishmeal formulations. However, effective fishmeal reduction requires more than protein replacement, as fishmeal provides essential nutritional and functional components that support growth, nutrient utilization, intestinal integrity, immunity, and stress resistance. This review highlights nutritional strategies that enhance the performance of low-fishmeal diets, including taurine, phosphorus-mobilizing enzymes, protein hydrolysates, fermented ingredients, yeast-derived products, probiotics, minerals, vitamins, and gut health-promoting additives. Within the species, life stages, diet matrices, and experimental conditions represented in the available evidence, future low-fishmeal feeds should be developed through context-specific formulations and validation aimed at restoring the relevant biological functions of fishmeal-based diets rather than through universal ingredient or additive recommendations.
Fish and fish by-products are rich in high-quality protein and bioactive compounds, but their use in value-added food products is still limited. Fish protein hydrolysate (FPH) has outstanding digestibility and functional properties, making it a potential ingredient for food fortification. However, differences in fish s...
Salsabila Mega Kencono Ganggi, A. Syauqy, G. Anjani et al.· Journal of Health and Nutrit...· 0 citations
Imbalanced dietary intake of omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids is increasingly associated with the incidence of chronic metabolic disorders. As the richest plant-based source of alpha-linolenic acid, flaxseed offers an effective strategy to improve the dietary omega-6: omega-3 ratio and thereby support metabolic health....
A. A. Joshi, P. D. Farde, A. Rathnakumar et al.· Food science and technology...· 0 citations
Simple Summary Broiler diets primarily rely on soybean meal and fishmeal, both of which carry significant environmental costs. Insect meal, principally from black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens), is one of the few alternatives that can reasonably close that gap. Beyond supplying a strong amino acid profile, inse...
Micronutrient deficiencies persist where affordable diets provide insufficient quantities of bioavailable minerals and vitamins. Pulses are strategically important targets for biofortification because they combine protein, dietary fibre and micronutrients with high consumption in many low- and middle-income settings. T...
Omprakash, S. K. Jain, K. Chandra et al.· International Journal of Pla...· 0 citations
Dietary CUR supplementation was associated with broad improvements in growth, tissue condition, nonspecific immune responses, intestinal microbial profiles, and post-challenge survival under the high-CAP dietary condition, which support the potential application of CUR as a functional additive in CAP-based, low-fishmea...
Edible fungi should be regarded as complementary functional ingredients rather than simple protein replacements, requiring species-specific formulation strategies, standardized ingredient characterization, and validation under commercial farming conditions.
Marco Valdés, J. Quiñones, Matías Cortés et al.· Animals· 0 citations
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