Animal digest is a common ingredient used in pet foods. As defined by the Association of American Feed Control Officials, digest is produced by the chemical or enzymatic hydrolysis of clean animal tissue that has not undergone decomposition. These animal tissues may not include hair, horns, teeth, hooves, or feathers, with the exclusion of trace amounts that are unavoidable even after acceptable processing methods.[1]
According to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a digest is an additive that has been treated with heat, enzymes, or also acids to produce a concentrated product intended as a natural flavoring. Pet food may legally be labelled as "Chicken Flavored" regardless of the percentage of chicken-derived product it contains, so long as the chicken flavoring is deemed "perceptible."[citation needed]
If a product is labeled as "flavored" by a certain type of meat, the digest it contains must have been produced from tissues pertaining to the listed animal species. Chicken flavored food must be flavored with chicken digest.[1]
^ abAnimal Proteins Prohibited in Ruminant Feed & Cattle Materials Prohibited in All Animal Feed, WSDA.
Animaldigest is a common ingredient used in pet foods. As defined by the Association of American Feed Control Officials, digest is produced by the chemical...
that help them digest plant matter, which is more difficult to digest than animal prey. This flora is made up of cellulose-digesting protozoans or bacteria...
own nutrients, animals are heterotrophic, feeding on organic material and digesting it internally. With very few exceptions, animals respire aerobically...
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other animals, and omnivores are animals that eat both plants and other animals. Many herbivores rely on bacterial fermentation to create digestible nutrients...
Mighty Worm. Worm Digest (2 October 2005) Archived 19 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine Carwardine, M. 1995. The Guinness Book of Animal Records. Guinness...
Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products. It includes day-to-day care...
plant and animal matter, and detritivores eat detritus. Fungi digest organic matter outside their bodies as opposed to animals that digest their food...
animals that produced it. Therefore, many digesters operate with codigestion of two or more types of feedstock. For example, in a farm-based digester...
guinea pigs. Pigs can eat hay, but do not digest it as efficiently as herbivores do. Hay can be used as animal fodder when or where there is not enough...
sphincter to relieve the pressure and release the feces. After an animal has digested eaten material, the remains of that material are discharged from...
Small Animal Clinical Nutrition. pp. 371–372. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2022. Because grass is not digested within...
Bracke, Peter M (August 7, 2006). "National Lampoon's Animal House (HD DVD)". High-Def Digest. Internet Brands. Archived from the original on January...
reach gum stashed in cracks and crevices, a large cecum to help the animaldigest complex carbohydrates, and a short duodenum to help quickly pass potentially...
microbes and animals such as earthworms, nematodes, protozoa, and arthropods.[circular reference] Plant remains, including those that animalsdigested and excreted...
their diets) Animaldigest Sucrose and/or fructose Animal by-products Less expensive dog foods generally include less meat and more animal by-products...
that is used as organic fertilizer in agriculture. Most manure consists of animal feces; other sources include compost and green manure. Manures contribute...
and fish farming. Animal agriculture is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Cows, sheep, and other ruminants digest their food by enteric...
"Worm Digest - The Mighty Worm". 2 October 2005. Archived from the original on 19 February 2009.; Carwardine, Mark (1995). The Guinness book of animal records...
Animal feed is food given to domestic animals, especially livestock, in the course of animal husbandry. There are two basic types: fodder and forage. Used...
types of anaerobic digesters. These processes and systems harness anaerobic digestion for purposes such as treatment of biowaste, animal manure, sewage and...
"Comprehensive overview of the quality of plant- And animal-sourced proteins based on the digestible indispensable amino acid score". Food Science & Nutrition...
Protein digestibility-corrected amino acid score (PDCAAS) is a method of evaluating the quality of a protein based on both the amino acid requirements...
the point that less than 5% of cheese in the United States is made using animal rennet today. Most cheese is now made using chymosin derived from bacterial...
Urdu Digest (Urdu: اردو ڈائجسٹ ) is a Pakistani monthly Urdu magazine. Urdu digest was the first digest in Pakistan that started in 1959 in Lahore. Its...
into the bloodstream of an animal. Because of human agricultural reliance in many parts of the world on animals which digest by enteric fermentation, it...
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