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Calcium Carbonate: Pet Food Ingredients A to Z

On the 3rd day of the A to Z challenge, we move on to the letter “C”, and we have chosen Calcium Carbonate as our pet food ingredient of the day. What is Calcium Carbonate? According to Wikipedia, Calcium Carbona...

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Biotin: Pet Food Ingredients A to Z

On the 2nd day of the A to Z challenge, we move on to the letter “B”, and we have chosen Biotin as our pet food ingredient of the day. What is Biotin? Biotin is a water soluble B vitamin that is essential for pro...

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Ascorbic Acid: Pet Food Ingredients A to Z

We often say that reading a pet food label shouldn’t be rocket science (even though a few of us here at Petnet have worked as rocket scientists ).  Pet food labels are long and confusing to most people, yet, it is ver...

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Ingredient Label Tricks: Ingredient Splitting

Looking at the ingredient list on a dog food label is tricky.  In many cases, the lists are long and contain names of ingredients that we are not familiar with.  Simply looking at the first few ingredients is not alwa...