Pet food
labels found in grocery and mass marketers
like to use Chicken or Lamb to represent
real meat. – (Contains 70% moisture).
This leads you the consumer to believe
that their product is meat based. Chicken
or lamb meats are heavier than grains
prior to cooking. The moisture contained
in the meats (70%) is reduced by 2/3rds
after the cooking process, leaving the
total formula as a grain base food after
processing.
Canidae Pet
foods list Chicken Meal & Turkey meal
as the first ingredients. Chicken, Turkey
and Lamb meals are dry and are less than
10% moisture and contain 50% - 65% meat
proteins. In processing the meat meals do
not shrink below the grain weight,
producing a true meat based formula for
your carnivores. AAFCO label rules require
that, the heaviest to the lightest
ingredients be the order on the guaranteed
analysis panel, (with or without water
content)
