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Oct 16
2024
Choosing the Best Formulation Tool: Key Features You Need
It's autumn in the northern hemisphere, and while the leaves change and temperatures cool, students head off to school. If you're beginning - or continuing - your nutrition education, you may be considering formulation tools. Obviously, we hope you’ll choose ADF! But in any case, here are some features to look for.
Jul 02
2024
Safe Upper Limits
Among several differences between the three nutritional standards is the presence (or absence) of safe upper limits, or maximum nutrient levels. Here, we’ll examine just a few of these.
May 20
2024
What do ADF vitamin E and folic acid values reflect?
If you peruse USDA’s FoodData Central website1 you’ll see a number of subcategories under several of the essential nutrients. For example, an entry for almonds in FoodData Central shows values for vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol), beta-tocop
Jan 30
2023
Mussels and oysters
Formulating using USDA nutrient data for eastern canned oysters and blue mussels can lead to significant zinc and manganese deficiencies. Here are the data. Zinc in oysters, USDA nutrient database values, and ADF Typicals™ values mg
Jan 26
2023
Formulating cooked diets improperly can lead to undernourishment
Only the ADF formulates cooked diets the way people shop. A client has a 30-pound active puppy, needing 1500 kcal per day. She feeds her puppy an ancestral-type diet, lightly cooked. The veterinarian formulates a lightly cooked beautifully balanc
Nov 11
2022
Many kibbles and raw foods formulated to AAFCO may be nutrient deficient as fed
Many vets tell people with fat dogs to "reduce the amount you're feeding." This is bad advice because it will result in significant nutrient deficiencies.
Nov 09
2022
A better answer to fat dog question
Question to vet: My dog is fat. Can I just reduce the amount of food fed? The client is feeding Dry Foods YES IF (Client is feeding Dry Foods) “If you’re feeding a quality high-protein dry food, and the minerals and vitamin amounts
Nov 08
2022
Are American older dogs consuming only 60% of NRC recommended nutrient levels?
This table shows the number of kilocalories a dog must consume daily to meet NRC and FEDIAF recommended nutrient levels for adult dogs if the food the dog is eating is formulated to just meet AAFCO nutrient minimums per 1,000 kcal or dry matter bases
Oct 12
2022
Thiamine: Especially for cats and cooked diets!
Be careful which chicken dark meat you use for formulations. Most formulation programs give you 6 or more choices for chicken dark meat with no skin.