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steve1

by steve1 on 17 October 2008 - 17:10

Beet Pulp is just a filler to bulk up the food. They grow it over here by the thousands of tons a year, I avoid kibbles with Beet pulp and there are many on the market which does not contain it, it is the by product of what is left  after the sugar has been excracted, and it does not look nice at all

Steve


by HighDesertGSD on 17 October 2008 - 17:10

Some filler is good stuff. It is insoluble and soluable fiber that aids elimination.

It can be bad for a food to have too much filler, almost incidentally. If it has a lot of corn, and  other grains, then there is just too much filler, incidental to too much grains.

The beet pulp is there for a reason; the crude fiber content is stated for a reason.


by HighDesertGSD on 17 October 2008 - 17:10

I certainly DO NOT subtract 10 points from "chicken by-product meal" , and not any point for a small amounts of corn. After I have stopped shunning small amounts of corn, the stool of my GSD is much better, well-form softer but not hard.

This is a article on chicken by product meal. The bias against it is totally unfounded. This may even be better than chicken meal, if chrondrotin in the joints in necks and backs, and the DHA in immature eggs, are not damaged by rendering, I don't know. At least about the same in protein quality.

http://www.hilarywatson.com/chicken.pdf

 






 


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