Selenium in poultry nutrition and its effect on meat quality

This review focuses on a selected micro mineral, where the highlight is its role in meat quality.   Minerals are important for optimising livestock and poultry performance. Initial symptoms of mineral imbalances, subclinical inadequacies, or severe deficiencies include depressed growth, body weight gain, poor feed utilisation efficiency, and reproductive efficiency. Dietary trace elements, particularly selenium, are able to induce physiological changes in muscle tissue, and they can alter meat