Animal Nutrition Group
We generate and transfer knowledge of the nutrition of animals to improve their production, health and welfare in a sustainable manner and improve the quality of life.
Our research
The Animal Nutrition (ANU) Group is one of the chair groups of the Department of Animal Sciences of Wageningen University & Research. In addition, ANU is the founding member of the Centre for Animal Nutrition; a collaboration between three internationally recognized animal nutrition groups in the Netherlands. The Centre develops fundamental and application-oriented expertise in animal nutrition and ensures the exchange and transfer of this expertise to government agencies, businesses, the primary animal nutrition sectors, societal institutions, NGOs and students.
Our research is focussed around the following areas:
- Resource efficiency
- Animal health, longevity and vitality
- Feed and pet food technology & quality
- Animal welfare
- Nutrigenomics
- Environmental issues related to animal nutrition
- Modelling of nutritional processes
Our news
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Cum laude PhD degree awarded to Allyson Ipema
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A mealworm for Mars
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"The Netherlands should continue to lead in agriculture"
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Power to the pellet: Challenges in the circular agriculture
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Sub-optimal growth performance in pigs under low sanitary conditions can be partly compensated by adjustments of the diet
Our latest publications
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Are insects a solution for feeding ruminants? Legislation, scientific evidence, and future challenges
Animal Frontiers (2023), Volume: 13, Issue: 4 - ISSN 2160-6056 - p. 102-111. -
L. rhamnosus CNCM I-3690 survival, adaptation, and small bowel microbiome impact in human
Gut Microbes (2023), Volume: 15, Issue: 1 - ISSN 1949-0976 -
Insect meals in a circular economy and applications in monogastric diets
Animal Frontiers (2023), Volume: 13, Issue: 4 - ISSN 2160-6056 - p. 81-90. -
Insects as global opportunity
Animal Frontiers (2023), Volume: 13, Issue: 4 - ISSN 2160-6056 - p. 3-5. -
The effect of sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia Scop.) drying temperature and pelleting on in vitro fermentation characteristics using equine faecal inocula
Animal Feed Science and Technology (2023), Volume: 304 - ISSN 0377-8401