Wild thing
SEVENTY five years after its mother company Soja De Portugal was formed, and almost thirty years after moving into aquaculture specific feeds, Aquasoja launches two innovative products – Croma and Ygeia Plus (Y+) – to meet the current market needs.
At the EAS/WAS aquaculture conference in Montpellier, Sara Magalhães, Aquasoja’s technical and sales manager, explained the benefits of those new products. ‘Croma, while based on pigment-rich raw materials of marine and vegetable origin, provides gilthead sea bream with a skin colour quite close to that of a wild fish, adding value to the final product and improving the acceptance by the end user.
‘Y+, to be used by all fish species, includes 100 per cent natural ingredients that help fish coping with stressors such as vaccination, handling, predators, environmental changes, and others. Briefly, it mins, and supports the immune response by introducing nucleotides which promote immune cell proliferation; moreover, it prevents fish anxiety and gut disorders while combining plant extracts with organic acids, and protects body cells from free radicals through natural antioxidants such as grape polyphenols. As Y+ works at several levels, it is a very complete product against stress-inducing events.”
Magalhães said that Croma and Y+ are being very well accepted by clients with interesting results being observed.
Croma provides gilthead sea bream with a skin colour quite close