Understanding Ingredient Splitting in Dog Food
August 7, 2011 by Paris Permenter and John Bigley
Filed under Health, Tips
If you’ve read many dog food labels, you’re probably familiar with the practice of “ingredient splitting” although you may not know it by that name. In today’s canine nutrition tip, expert Tracie Hotchner examines this practice and what it means for your dog’s food:
Food fragments from one ingredient or “ingredient splitting” on the dog food label can be a way to hide a large amount of a low-value ingredient. For example, a food that has corn in various forms has a lot more corn than it does meat protein – but by splitting the corn up into sub-categories this allows the manufacturer to put the meat protein first on the ingredient list because the actual proportionate amount of corn in the overall recipe has been deceptively divided into numerous fragments or sub categories (ground yellow corn, corn bran, corn meal, corn gluten meal, corn germ meal, corn flour).
This Canine Nutrition Tip is from Tracie Hotchner, author of The Dog Bible and award-winning host of Dog Talk® on NPR station WLIU. Canine Nutrition Tips are sponsored by Proportions, the whole food custom nutrition program for your dog. Visit www.Proportions.com to get a custom 2-meal trial for your dog, or to learn more about canine nutrition from the full Canine Nutrition University classes written by Tracie.
Author photo courtesy www.traciehotchner.com; photo © Ling Li
About Paris Permenter and John Bigley
DogTipper publishers Paris Permenter and John Bigley are a husband-wife team of full-time writers. The couple has authored over two dozen books and 2,500+ magazine articles.
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