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Metals measured1
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Year2020

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  • crease the dietary fiber content of cat foods. to less than 10% moisture. Dried kibbles were
  • 10% of Miscanthus grass, cellulose, or beet characteristics. Kibbles containing cellulose re-
  • common in cats than dogs, wherein 33.5% of cats fat is topically applied to extruded pet foods, its
  • 2018). Table 1). Cellulose and beet pulp were purchased
  • foods to consumers. 10% for all treatment. At a similar inclusion among
  • Table 1. Ingredient and nutrient composition of experimental cat foods
  • Corn gluten meal (75% crude protein) 5.00 5.00 5.00
  • Crude protein, % 35.40 34.20 33.80
  • Crude fat, % 11.40 12.00 11.60
  • Ash, % 7.16 7.01 7.00
  • Crude fiber, % 5.56 8.90 2.95
  • Nitrogen-free extractd, % 26.81 26.79 31.32
  • Vitamin E supplement (79,887 IU/kg), niacin supplement (64,736 mg/kg), calcium pantothenate (12,186 mg/kg), vitamin A supplement
  • (17,162,998 IU/kg), thiamin mononitrate (14,252 mg/kg), pyridoxine hydrochloride (5,537 mg/kg), riboflavin supplement (4,719 mg/kg), vitamin
  • D3 supplement (920,000 IU/kg), biotin (70 mg/kg), vitamin B12 supplement (22 mg/kg), and folic acid (720 mg/kg), as is basis.
  • Zinc sulfate (88,000 mg/kg), ferrous sulfate (38,910 mg/kg), copper sulfate (11,234 mg/kg), manganous oxide (5,842 mg/kg), sodium selenite
  • (310 mg/kg), calcium iodate (1,584 mg/kg), as is basis.
  • Added after the diets were dried to less than 10% moisture as a coating step.
  • extruder barrel, die temperature, die pressure, knife at 115.5 ºC until moisture was less than 10%.
  • a coating after the diets were dried at 4% and 1% Chemical and Physical Analyses
  • cell. A cylindrical probe (25 mm diameter) was used to analyze the data. Treatment means were
  • used to compress 30 kibbles from each collection considered different at an alpha of 5% by Fisher
  • level was set at 90%. Kibble hardness (N) was the To reiterate, when referring to the fiber sources,
  • energy to compress (N mm) the kibbles to 90% the experimental diets, the abbreviations will be
  • compressed kibble. Negative values were rounded the same except for the source of fiber (Table 1).
  • were similar among diets (Table 1). et al., 2008; Roudebush, et al., 2008; Owens et al.,
  • sion energy (Table 3). The BP diet tended to have et al., 2012a, 2012b; Kallu et al., 2017; Wang et al.,
  • ticles by target size. As a result, a higher variation eters were affected by the fiber source (Table 2).
  • Table 3. Kibble characteristics out of the extruder and drier, shrinkage, and macrostructure of dry cat foods
  • Means with unlike superscripts differ, P < 0.05.
  • Table 4. Chemical composition, bulk density, and particle size of tested fiber sources
  • Crude fiber, % 47.58 76.29 20.21
  • Neutral detergent fiber, % 77.68 92.76 34.15
  • Acid detergent lignin, % 13.68 0.73 6.38
  • mean retention time. J. Anim. Sci. 68:4229–4235. doi:10.2 and B. F. Harland. 1985. Determination of total dietary

Methods (brief)

  • each 20 min interval, 10 kibbles were collected after fiber (AOCS Ba 6a-05 method) (AOCS, 2017), acid
  • ducted the study, sample, and data analysis. All diets varying in fibre sources on nutrient utilization, stool

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