When you read your pets dry food bag you are viewing it in the form of a dry matter basis (otherwise known as a moisture free food analysis). This snapshot of your pet’s food is commonly known as the guaranteed analysis, and shows you the protein, fat, fiber, and moisture content of your pet’s food. So how do you find the dry matter basis for your pet’s canned food? There is a simple equation to subtract the water content from the canned food you are trying to analyze, here’s how:
Use the information found on your food cans guaranteed analysis to complete this equation:
Dry Matter protein content = (protein / (moisture -100) ) x 100
Here’s an example: my cat’s wellness can food reads that it has 8 % protein and 82 % moisture content. To find the dry matter protein percentage of Terra’s food I need to subtract the moisture content on the label from 100, and form the following equation:
( 8 / 18 ) x 100 = 44.4% dry matter protein content
This means that if my cat’s food were a dry kibble it would actually contain 44.4% protein vs. the 8% listed on the label. That’s a big difference! Try this at home with your pet’s food canned food and compare it to their dry kibble, what kind of differences can you find??
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