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What The Pet Food Label Doesn't Tell You - Part 3
Posted on: June 05 2014
Most pet foods manufacturers identify the primary meat source contained within their pet foods on the front of the pet food label. A chicken pet food may be introduced with words such as “chicken flavour”, “with chicken” “rich in chicken”, or, “chicken dinner” to name but a few of the all too familiar phrases we find on the front of many of the well known brands of pet food. If you thought these were just phrases being used to make your pet’s food sound more interesting, then think again.
If you were asked whether a pet food that claimed it was “chicken flavour” contained chicken you would assume the correct answer was yes. You’d be wrong. A pet food or treat, which is labelled...
What The Pet Food Label Doesn't Tell You - Part 2
Posted on: June 05 2014
How Much Meat is Really in Your Pet’s Food and What Animal did it Come From?
In this article we look at the regulation surrounding what information a pet food manufacturer has to give you about the meat content of your pet's food, and the legal definitions of meat and animal derivatives and animal by-products, and how these ingredients may impact on the quality of your pet's food.
Pet food manufacturers realise that most pet owners want to see a high meat content in their cat or dogs food. It is not unusual to see claims that meat is the main ingredient in their products, or, that the pet food has a high protein content (the implication being that this protein has been derived...
What The Pet Food Label Doesn't Tell You - Part 1
Posted on: June 05 2014
In this article we look at the regulation surrounding labelling a pet food “natural” “hypoallergenic” or “Sensitive” and what is required of a pet food manufacturer before it can make these claims. We also offer our thoughts on what to consider before you buy a pet food labelled “natural”, “hypoallergenic” or “Sensitive”.
There has been much media attention in the last decade on the health implications of many processed foods available at the supermarket for humans. It should, therefore, come as little surprise that highly processed pet foods can also have serious health implications for our pets.
With this in mind more and more pet owners look to provide their pets with pet...
Dietary Protein for Dogs and Cats - The Importance of Digestible Proteins
Posted on: June 05 2014
Protein is an important part of your pet’s diet. It is, however, important to understand why your pet requires dietary protein before you can decide which is the best diet for your pet’s health and wellbeing. The crude protein level provided on the back of the pet food label doesn’t give you all the information that you need.
Dogs and Cats need dietary protein for the following reasons:
- Dogs and cats need 22 amino acids to be healthy. Dogs can synthesize 12 of these amino acids and cats can synthesize 11 of them. The remaining amino acids must come from the food they eat. This is why they are called essential amino acids.
- Protein provides the essential amino acids that dogs...
