ANSC 4650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Atwater System, Pet Food, Dietary Reference Intake
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Recommended energy and nutrient intakes/requirements for dogs and cats. The nrc publication, the nutrient requirements of cats and dogs, is a publication intended to be used by nutrition professionals to help guide formulation of diets. Separate recommendations for species as well as life stage: growth, late gestation and lactation. Minimal requirement: minimal concentration or amount of a maximally bioavailable nutrient that will support a defined physiological state, often absent in tables. Adequate intake: minimal concentration or amount that results in no animal being deficient or when no mr has been demonstrated. Recommended allowance: based on mr, the ra considers the normal variation in bioavailability of nutrients in feed ingredients of typical quality. If mr not available, it is based on ai: this value is similar to aafco minimum recommendation - all nutrients have an. 2006 nrc fatty acid (fa) requirements: omega-6 fa (linoleic acid, arachidonic acid, omega-3 fa ( -linolenic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid (epa), docosahexaenoic acid (dha))
