The importance of additives in feeding dogs and cats: Literature review

Authors

  • Sandro Cappelli
  • Emanuel Manica
  • Juliano Hideo Hashimoto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22256/pubvet.v10n3.212-223

Keywords:

Pet food, extruded feed, nutrition, health, pet.

Abstract

Additives in pet feed started to have big importance in the market. This due to the part of the pets passed to have in the last years, approaching more and more of the people e becoming dependents of human beings. The main of this study have the purpose to show the importance of the additives, principally in the extruded feed, addressing the particularities of both species. They function is to attempt the nutritional requirements that the feedstock used in the fabrication of pet feed don’t supply. Furthermore, there are additives that are able to generate benefits, like: improving the digestibility; the faeces quality and the intestinal microbiota; ease medical conditions that animals can suffer, as skin, intestinal and articulations problems. They can provide benefits to animals in a short or a long time, improving health to pet when they are add in their feed.

Published

2016-02-14

Issue

Section

Nutrição e alimentação animal

How to Cite

The importance of additives in feeding dogs and cats: Literature review. (2016). Pubvet, 10(03). https://doi.org/10.22256/pubvet.v10n3.212-223

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