Pet Food Basics Flashcards
What information is required to be on a pet food label?
Weight, cat food/dog food (type), name and address of manufacturer, guaranteed analysis, ingredients, nutritional adequately statement, feeding guidelines
95% of the total weight.
Beef
25% of the total weight.
Beef dinner
3% of total weight of ingredients.
“With beef”
Beef flavor
What is required in the guaranteed analysis?
Min. % of crude protein and crude fat and max % of fiber and moisture and the “ash” minerals
The higher on the list of the ingredient….
The more predominance of weight in the food prior to processing
The ingredient statement does not….
Include any quality info about the ingredients
Clean parts other than meat that are typically used in human food.
By products
Two parts of a nutritional adequacy statement.
Formulation method and feeding trial
The “gold standard” of nutritional adequacy statement.
Feeding trial
Must include kcals.
Feeding guidelines.
Is only a STARTING POINT for buyers.
Feeding guidelines
Just means it came from an animal or plant.
Natural
AAFCO has not defined….
Organic
Generally song as off brands or generic food.
“All purpose diet”
Marked under the idea that the food will meet the needs of any lifestyle or point in the animals life.
“All purpose diet”
Often found in veterinary hospitals for special nutritional needs.
Special purpose food.
Preferred over plastic.
Stainless or stoneware
Dry matter basis calculation.
Reported amt of nutrient/total amount of dry matter x100
Tends to have lower protein, fat and minerals.
Dry foods.
Cons in dry foods.
Takes out nutrients, lower in digestibility, processing
Types of food.
Dry food, semi-moist food, wet food
Tends to leads to obesity due to being high in corn starch.
Semi-moist food
Examples of healthy treats.
Carrots, broccoli, lean meat, canned pumpkin
Used to correct a nutritional deficiency.
Supplements
AAFCO
American association of feed control officials
