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Pet food energy calculations: Are inaccurate equations contributing to feline obesity? (Room 2502)

30 Apr 19
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

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Natalie Asaro, a nutrition assistant at Petcurean Pet Nutrition, discusses methods for determining energy content and feeding guidelines in cat food, and presents novel research that proposes more accurate dietary energy prediction models. Net energy is the most accurate representation of dietary energy available to an animal. However, models predicting net energy density of food do not exist for domestic cats.