MetAMINO® is a white to yellowish crystalline amino acid manufactured at purity levels exceeding 99% DL-methionine. It plays a pivotal role in balancing nutrition to maximize performance for monogastric farm animals, pets and aquatic species. Besides MetAMINO®, Evonik offers Mepron®, a rumen-stable form of methionine.
Typical Applications
Methionine is the first limiting amino acid in commercial poultry diets, in milk production, and typically in fish diets. It is also the third or fourth limiting amino acid in modern swine diets.
Benefits at a glance
- >99% purity for consistent feed performance with minimal safety margins
- 100% bio-efficacy and fast absorption deliver high nutritional value
- Helps reduce production costs and increase profit margins
- Crystalline form facilitates easy storage, handling, and mixing
- Shorter cycle times through precise dosing and homogenous mixing
- Production in three global regions ensures highest supply security
Markets & Applications
Less is more: Reduce feed costs and increase profitability with MetAMINO®
Because it’s about 65
Over 30 years of research, validated by numerous animal performance trials, shows that 65 units of MetAMINO® can replace 100 units of methionine hydroxy analogue (MHA) products without compromising animal performance (e.g. Lemme et al., 2020; Li et al., 2023). This concept allows customers to use less methionine while achieving the same results, thereby lowering feed costs, increasing profitability and contributing to a more sustainable future.
The 2nd edition of the MetAMINO® ATLAS summarizes the latest scientific research on the relative bioavailability of DL-Met and MHA-FA including 19 new performance trials with over 2 million animals.
MetAMINO® Atlas Edition 2 – out now
The new MetAMINO® Atlas presents 19 performance trials conducted in 12 countries on 4 continents with more than 2 million animals. It shows that the 65% bioefficacy concept is universally applicable.
Discover the first edition of our MetAMINO® ATLAS
In the MetAMINO® Atlas, Evonik has summarized the results of 15 performance trials that were conducted around the globe under different climatic and agricultural conditions. The MetAMINO® Atlas provides a balanced selection of academic research and field trials with feed for broiler chickens, laying hens, swine and fish.
MetAMINO® – the essential building block for optimized animal nutrition
Effective strategy to lower feed costs
Methionine plays a foundational role in animal nutrition. As an essential amino acid, it serves as a building block for synthesizing peptides and proteins that are incorporated into body tissues, feathers and eggs for optimal growth performance, health, body weight gain and feed conversion. Moreover, methionine is important in the synthesis of polyamines as a donor of methyl groups for DNA and as a precursor to cysteine. The latter is used to form glutathione, a major antioxidant that plays a role in the immune function. In its DL-methionine form, MetAMINO® is part of an effective strategy to lower feed costs by reducing expensive crude protein levels and nitrogen excretion while contributing to a more sustainable livestock farming.
Market-leading product carbon footprint
Evonik's commitment to cutting-edge production technology minimizes our environmental impact. A lifecycle assessment shows that one unit of MetAMINO® generates 2.89 units of CO2 equivalent. When weighted according to bioavailable methionine content, according to Evonik’s own benchmarking process, the carbon footprint of MetAMINO® is approximately 35% lower than the global industry average.*
Supply security through a global production network
Evonik, the world's largest methionine producer, has an integrated global production network strategically located across all regions, in Singapore (Asia), Antwerp (Europe), and Mobile, Alabama (the Americas). This allows us to stay close to our customers and markets, ensuring the most efficient and sustainable supply chains possible.
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Optimize on the go – the MetAMINO® Calculator App
The MetAMINO® Benefit Calculators are also available as a mobile app for iOS and Android – providing users with full functionality wherever they are. Whether making cost-effective purchasing decisions, evaluating digestible Met+Cys to Lys ratios for optimal nutrition, or improving mixing time and mill throughput in feed production – the app puts all three calculators right at the user’s fingertips.
Read related articles from AMINONews®
Discover selected articles from AMINONews® – our expert magazine for the feed and livestock industry. Dive into science-based content on amino acids, sustainable feeding strategies, and innovations in animal nutrition and health – written by leading experts and tailored for professionals.
- DL-methionine can replace methionine-hydroxy analog products in a ratio of 65:100
- Cut feed costs and boost profitability with DL-methionine
- Optimal DL‑methionyl‑ DL‑methionine supplementation in a plant‑protein diet for the red swamp crayfish
- Meta-analysis confirms DL-methionine's superior bioavailability over MHA in broiler feeding
Get in touch with our experts
Whether you run a feed mill or livestock operation, produce meat, dairy, or eggs – Evonik is here to support you. Wherever you're located and whatever your needs, our Evonik Animal Nutrition specialists are ready to assist you.
*Methodology for global industry average excluding Evonik: estimated internally by Evonik‘s market intelligence, technology and lifecycle assessment experts. Industry methionine sources include DL-methionine, L-methionine and methionine hydroxy analogue (MHA). Global Warming Potential is estimated accounting for the higher bioavailability of methionine in MetAMINO® versus MHA (e.g. Lemme et al., 2020; Li et al., 2023).
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