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and increase susceptibility to a broad range of dental and metabolic diseases.
1 A better choice is to eliminate it.
BEET PULP – the dried residue extracted from the processing of
manufactured sugar. It contains pure sucrose, as in common white refined
sugar. Sucrose is quickly absorbed into the liver without being fully metabolized,
converted to fat, and shunted to fat depots throughout the body.
Like corn syrup, this ingredient can increase predisposition to dental and
metabolic diseases. The fiber content of beet pulp is used as a filler and as
a binder to “artificially” create better-formed stools. Specialized forms of
beet pulp containing oligosaccharides that help promote beneficial probiotic
growth in the digestive system are a different matter. 2
FISH MEAL – dried ground tissue of undecomposed whole fish or
fish cuttings, with or without extraction of part of the oil. This is not the
entire fish, and therefore does not contain many of the fat-soluble vitamins,
omega 3 fatty acids, or minerals found in whole fish. Fish meal is
very unstable and easily oxidized and must be stabilized with preservatives,
but this is rarely done early enough or well enough.
CONDENSED FISH SOLUBLES – obtained from condensing the
“stickwater.” (The aqueous extract of cooked fish free from the oil; contains
aqueous fish cell solutions and water used in processing.) Much of
the oil soluble nutrients (some of the most important) of fish have been
removed, along with water-soluble vitamins lost through leaching in the
water used to cook the fish.
There are many more fully approved – but questionable from a health
perspective – ingredients which can be used to divine “100% complete”
pet foods. The following list, egregious as it is, comes right from the official
AAFCO publication: 3
• dehydrated garbage
• undried processed animal waste products
• polyethylene roughage replacement (plastic)
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2. Am J Vet Res, 2001; 62(4):609-15. J Anim Sci, 1995; 73(4):1099-109. J Anim
Sci, 1995; 73(4):1110-22. Enzyme Microb Technol, 2001; 28(1):70-80.
3. Association of American Feed Control Officials, 1998 Official Publication.
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