If the label says flavored<\/i>, the flavor needs only to be detectable in the food; there is no minimum percentage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nMarketing Ploys<\/h3>\n
Manufacturers use several ingredient-based marketing ploys that appeal to your emotional needs. Some premium food companies tout a product that contains \u201cwhole chicken or beef\u201d as better than foods that contain corn or meat meals. But what\u2019s important is the nutrients in a specific<\/i> ingredient. You cannot predict a food\u2019s performance based on the ingredient list because too many factors come into play. These include the amount of the ingredient, the quality of the ingredient and the exact nutrient composition of the ingredient.<\/p>\n
Ingredient lists can be misleading, and claims are sometimes unsubstantiated. Real meat might be the first ingredient on a dry dog food label because it contains more of this by weight than the other ingredients. What they don\u2019t tell you about is the water weight, which is removed in the process of creating a dry food with the ingredients. If they used this corrected weight, the ingredient would be far down on the list.<\/p>\n
The order of ingredients can be manipulated in the opposite way. This is called ingredient splitting.<\/i> Let\u2019s say you want to see how much protein, carbohydrates or fats the food contains, based on a percentage of each. They can split all the carbohydrates into different names like corn<\/i>, rice<\/i>, wheat<\/i> or oatmeal<\/i>, which puts each one low on the list of ingredients. This leads you to think that this diet is low in carbohydrates. If you add them all up individually, you might see the diet that you are looking at is high in carbohydrates and low in protein.<\/p>\n
Source: Tony Buffington, DVM, MS, Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Nutritionists.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To learn what is in your pet\u2019s food, you must go beyond the marketing hype on the bag and read the ingredient list. Here are some standards and definitions based on the American Association of Feed Control Officials (AAFCO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":67621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[388],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pets","tag-the-vet-is-in","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"dog-food\"](\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/dog-food.jpg\")
<\/p>\n