Nutrition and feeding of dairy sheep and goats in traditional systems and their effect on typical products' quality

摘要

In the Mediteraneanregion small ruminats faming systems, with dominant extensive grazing situation, produce meat and dairy products with exceptional physicochemical and nutritional properties and original characteristics. These are due to a number offactors like local animal breeds of low productivity, great variability in botanical and chemical composition of grazed herbage, natural environment, very low chemical inputs in animals feed, and very limited animal medication, but also a specific technology for the processed products. These products have beneficial effects in consumers' health, who should always be clearly informed about the origin, traceabiiity and authenticity of the products.