An enzyme-rich malt extract developed to support digestion and the wider gut environment — every day.
From everyday owners to professional and working horses.
Add EquiNectar to the normal feed and make digestive support part of the everyday routine.
Digestive health is not one single measure. The environment inside the hindgut, the microbial community living there and the everyday signs owners see can all be connected. EquiNectar has been studied across that wider digestive picture.
In a study of Thoroughbred racehorses maintained on their existing high-starch diet, mean faecal pH moved in a more favourable direction after EquiNectar supplementation.
Research has shown changes within the horse's existing microbial community after EquiNectar supplementation, including increases in bacterial groups associated with fibre degradation and lactate utilisation.
Digestive balance can be reflected in some of the things horse owners monitor every day — from dropping consistency to condition and how effectively the normal ration is being utilised.
EquiNectar research has also explored relationships between digestive health, demeanour and reactivity — part of a much wider picture than simply what happens in the gut.
“He's gaining weight slowly, his coat is so much better and he moves so much more easily.”
Karen introduced EquiNectar as part of her horse's daily feeding routine and reported clear changes in his condition, coat and the way he was moving.
The products in the EquiNectar range have different jobs. EquiNectar provides the daily digestive foundation; the targeted products sit alongside it when a horse needs additional support for a more specific purpose.
Enzyme-rich malt extract designed to support digestion upstream and help create a more favourable nutritional environment for the horse's existing hindgut microbiome. This is the foundation of the range.
Daily nutritional support focused on the gastric environment and protective barrier.
Purpose-built nutritional support to help buffer excess stomach acid.
High-purity activated coconut-shell charcoal for short, targeted periods.
EquiNectar works by supporting digestion upstream first. Its naturally occurring digestive enzymes change the balance of substrate arriving in the hindgut, creating a different nutritional environment for the horse's existing microbiome.
Enzyme-rich malt extract is fed alongside the horse's normal ration, complementing feed, grass and forage.
Enzymes including amylase and fructanase support the breakdown of starch and fructans earlier in the digestive process, alongside enzymes acting on other dietary components.
Better upstream digestion changes the amount and balance of rapidly fermentable carbohydrate arriving in the hindgut, including undigested starch and fructans.
Reduced rapidly fermentable carbohydrate supports a more favourable hindgut environment, including conditions that support cellulolytic and lactate-utilising bacterial communities.
EquiNectar works with the horse's existing microbial community by changing the nutritional environment reaching it, rather than introducing foreign microorganisms.
EquiNectar simply becomes part of the normal feeding routine. Add it to the horse's regular feed and let the enzyme-rich malt extract do the complicated work.
EquiNectar begins with carefully selected malted barley. Our patented production process preserves its enzyme-rich character, creating a broad digestive enzyme system within a naturally complex malt matrix.
Different parts of the diet require different enzymes. EquiNectar brings eight together in one malt-derived system, covering carbohydrates, proteins, fats and plant material.
Enzymes are why EquiNectar exists. But the ERME matrix also carries vitamins, minerals and plant compounds inherited from the malt itself. They add nutritional depth without distracting from the primary mechanism.
The strength of the ERME profile is its breadth. Rather than concentrating on one nutrient class, its enzymes act across several important components of the diet.
Malt brings with it a useful spectrum of B vitamins involved in normal metabolism, cellular function and nutrient use.
ERME also retains a range of nutritionally relevant minerals originating within the malt.
Malt contains plant-derived phenolic compounds that contribute to its antioxidant profile.
EquiNectar's enzyme system is created by biology before it ever reaches the horse. Malting activates the grain's own machinery; the challenge is then to retain that activity.
EquiNectar begins with malted barley varieties chosen for their enzyme-rich characteristics.
Germination activates the biological machinery the grain uses to mobilise its own stored nutrients.
Tharos' patented process is designed to retain that enzyme-rich character in the finished extract.
ERME is the malt-derived material at the heart of EquiNectar — preserving a broad enzyme system within the wider nutritional matrix created through malting.
Malting activates the grain's own biological machinery, creating the enzyme-rich character at the heart of EquiNectar. The challenge is not simply to create those enzymes - it is to retain them.
From malted barley to Enzyme-Rich Malt Extract.
Developed by TharosEquiNectar has been investigated in racehorses, leisure horses and horses under veterinary care — using measurements ranging from faecal pH and metabolomics to microbiome analysis and real-world field observations.
Racehorses remained on their normal high-starch concentrated diet while receiving EquiNectar. Mean faecal pH increased significantly over four weeks.
ERME produced a distinctly different metabolic profile from pasture alone in a controlled six-week study.
A retrospective field study followed 34 horses receiving veterinary support for digestive concerns.
Evidence across multiple types of measurement. The research does not rely on one endpoint alone.
The headline results stay simple. Open the studies below for design, measurements and key findings.
The horses continued on their standard concentrated diet. Mean faecal pH rose from 6.20 to 6.40 over four weeks, with a statistically significant change.
Twenty-four horses received ERME alongside spring pasture while 21 controls received pasture alone. Metabolomic analysis showed the ERME group developed a distinct metabolic profile.
Across the research programme, EquiNectar supplementation has been associated with measurable changes in microbial and metabolomic profiles. Reported changes include increases in bacterial groups involved in fibre degradation and lactate utilisation.
This retrospective field study followed horses receiving veterinary support for digestive concerns. Outcomes were recorded during the EquiNectar feeding period.
Mechanism, measurement and real-world observation. Different study designs have examined EquiNectar from different angles — helping build a more complete picture of its effects on equine digestive function.
Research matters. So does what happens when digestive support becomes part of the routine in demanding, real-world environments.
Different breeds, different disciplines, different reasons for trying EquiNectar. What matters most to owners is often much simpler — how their own horse looks, feels and behaves from day to day.
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Different products have different jobs. Here's the simplest way to decide where to start.
The daily digestive foundation for wider digestive support.
Start with the digestive foundation. Add more targeted support only where it has a clear role.
Serious digestive science, made simple to feed. EquiNectar provides naturally occurring digestive enzymes in an enzyme-rich malt extract designed to support digestion upstream and the wider gut environment — every day.
