Protein and growth - Q for Burns ?

Basil · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:43 am Post subject:

Mhairi - Burns does advise moving to adult food at 6 months, not sure about the others.

Jules, the difference in protein levels for naturduet or RAW is to take into account the water levels in wet food.

For example,
a 100g serving of wetfood can be typically 80% water say and 10% protein - which means 10g of protein in 100g BUT 10g of protein in only 20g of dry matter - so in comparison terms 50% protein.

I probably haven't explained it well but you can't typically compare a wet and dry diet side by side (unless you know and account for it's water content).
Typically wet foods are higher protein than dry food and a pure raw meat diet would almost certainly be higher than burns 18% protein.

_Jules_ · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:47 am Post subject:

Ahhh See, I did say on another thread that I was pants at Maths. Wink

So (trying to grasp the concept of taking the moisture content into consideration)....are you saying that if we were to fully soak the dried kibble that it's protein content would be reduced? Or does that only apply to the percentages to weight ratio?

I took this off the NM site..

Ingredients
Chicken 32%, Tripe 28%, Vegetables 20%, Lamb 14%, Heart 3%, Liver 3%

Typical Analysis
Moisture 65%, Oil 10%, Protein 12%, Ash 2.4%, Fibre 0.3%

.....so are you saying that if you were to dry this food, it's protein content percentage would be much greater? And if so, does this not then mean that dried foods should contain much more protein....and also (worryingly) does this mean that most dried food is just full of unnecessary fillers?

More to the point, does that make any sense?

Life was much simpler before the Scientists got involved, I'm sure. Wink

_Jules_ · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:56 am Post subject: