Assessment of energy content in dog foods
ABSTRACT: Animals can regulate food intake to meet their energy demands, so the nutritional composition of the diet should be balanced with its energy density to avoid over- or under-nutrition situations. The dog food market is registering significant growth, which is reflected in a broad portfolio...
- Autores:
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Posada Ochoa, Sandra Lucía
Duque Saldarriaga, Juan Camilo
Agudelo Trujillo, Jorge Hernán
- Tipo de recurso:
- Review article
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2017
- Institución:
- Universidad de Antioquia
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio UdeA
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/31516
- Acceso en línea:
- https://hdl.handle.net/10495/31516
- Palabra clave:
- Perros
Dogs
Metabolismo
Metabolism
Densidad energética
Energy density
Digestibilidad
Digestibility
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_63c345c2
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2266
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/co/
| Summary: | ABSTRACT: Animals can regulate food intake to meet their energy demands, so the nutritional composition of the diet should be balanced with its energy density to avoid over- or under-nutrition situations. The dog food market is registering significant growth, which is reflected in a broad portfolio of products with varied energy levels; however, true quantification of their energy value is unknown. Energy needs for dogs are commonly expressed as metabolizable energy, which is estimated with mathematical approaches (indirect estimation) or determined through digestibility and metabolism trials (direct estimation). This paper reviews the energy assessment of dog food, including common methodologies and experimental procedures. |
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