Feed, Animal and Human Health: Designing Functional Egg

Abstract

In currently decades, the demand of functional foods is increasing and would increase continuously in the future. Since their roles can decrease of several diseases risk and can increasing the life expectancy. In addition, the consumers expect more and more food especially from animal products that are free from the antibiotics, hormone, additive, salmonella , Escherichia coli , and GMO. Among food of animal products, eggs are very interesting from the point of view of functionality, because they are as the moderate calorie source, an excellent quality protein, rich in vitamins and minerals, inexpensive and highly nutritious food. The develop of the functional foods from egg-derived by technological methods is interest strategy to enhance profitability of egg producers and food industry and improving public health condition in generally, especially in the developing country such as Indonesia. This paper briefly discusses the roles of functional egg for human health, how to design functional eggs, and to developing small holder cage-free layer farming to produce functional egg.