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In your opinion, which dog food would make a better choice: chicken meal or pure chicken? Chicken meal is definitely better because it has been cooked to destroy bacteria and other unwanted substances. Chicken, on the other hand, is just chicken. Water makes up the majority of a chicken's body. When the label on your dog food states 70% whole chicken, this does not really mean it contains 70% chicken. Why? This is because 70% is before the chicken was cooked to remove the bacteria in its body. After cooking, this number should drop. Hence be cautious when looking at these numbers. Different dog foods have different levels of moisture. Some dry foods have as little as 6% moisture level while other canned foods have as much as 80% moisture level. You need to know these things as they are important for two reasons. First, since dog food is priced by its weight, it could get quite expensive because when you buy dog food that is 70% water, you are in fact getting only 30% real food. The second reason is when you know that there is different moisture levels present in dog foods, you can compare fats and proteins between different brands and among dry and canned dog foods. To achieve this, you need to convert the percentage number to a dry matter base. Converting the number to a dry matter basis is simple. Let's say the label on a dog food says 25% moisture and 35% protein. To compute the percentage of protein on a dry matter basis, you just have to do these 2 simple steps. First, 25% moisture means 75% (100% - 25%) dry mater. Second, divide 35% protein by the 75% dry matter. 35/75 = 46.7% protein on a dry matter basis. Now let us compare this to canned food that has 80% moisture. We know that with 80% moisture we have 20% dry matter. The label shows 5% protein. So we take the 5% and divide it by 20% and we get 25% protein on a dry matter basis. So the canned food has more protein per pound on a dry matter basis after all the water is taken out. We can do the same for fat, fiber and more. Should you understand how to calculate the amount of protein on a dry matter basis as illustrated above, then you would have a much better understanding of how nutritious a particular dog food is.
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