Ingredient splitting on pet food labels is a way to include a lot of grain sources, each listed separately – and which may appear at first glance to be a minority ingredient.

Pet Food Ingredient Labeling Sleight of Hand
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Ingredient splitting on pet food labels is a way to include a lot of grain sources, each listed separately – and which may appear at first glance to be a minority ingredient.
Hone your pet food label reading skills by learning a few tricks of the trade that pet food companies use to describe the ingredients in their formulations.
Pet food labels are not very consumer-friendly, but learning even a little bit about a key concept – dry matter basis – can help you know what you DON’T know about the quality or availability of protein in a food.
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