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DOG FOOD & SAPONINS: A Dangerous Liaison
Ran across this article, thought it might lead to actually learning
something on this group. Hope is eternal! http://therobertabadydogfoodcoltd.co...20Saponins.htm Here is an excerpt. Soybeans and beet pulp are ingredients that are commonly used in dog feeds. Both contain saponins; substances that may be hazardous to your dog's health. Soybeans and beet pulp are included in canine rations because they are cost-saving to manufacturers. Soybeans furnish inexpensive protein, and beet pulp's fiber content artificially hardens stools. Both ingredients enable manufacturers to avoid the expense of using higher quality ingredients. In the Guaranteed Analysis that appears on all dog food labels, protein quality is not differentiated, therefore, lower quality soy protein is listed in the same manner as better quality (more expensive) animal protein, thereby giving a market advantage to products in which the lower quality, lower priced ingredients are being used. Beet pulp creates a firm stool regardless of the nutritional composition of the rest of the diet. Since many people, and most veterinarians, equate firm stools with dietary quality and sufficiency, the use of beet pulp is particularly offensive, since it allows the production of a firm stool without any guarantee of a product's quality or nutritional sufficiency. Neither soybeans nor beet pulp are in any way essential to canine health. In fact, a growing body of scientific evidence indicates that the reverse is true. Even though there are a number of reasons (nutritional, biochemical, and physiological) for avoiding diets which contain either soybeans or beet pulp, it is not the intent of this article to elaborate on those aspects, but rather to focus on the serious, even fatal, consequences that have been associated with the use of these ingredients in animal diets. In the late 1970's, Robert Abady (later to found the Robert Abady Dog Food Company), during the course of conducting feeding experiments, became aware that a connection existed between the development of bloat (and various other gastrointestinal disorders) and diets that contained a significant amount of soybean meal and/or beet pulp could be responsible for irritating the gastrointestinal tract, since it is a scientific fact that carnivores have a very low requirement for fiber. Beet pulp - laden diets can create many problems, but the symptoms are usually suppressed until the beet pulp is eliminated from the feeding regimen. When a dog is switched from a feed that contains beet pulp to a food that does not contain beet pulp the symptoms of intestinal damage, diarrhea, bloody stools, etc. (caused by the saponins in the beet pulp), become manifest, often to be incorrectly blamed on the new diet, rather than on the true culprit - beet pulp contained in the previous diet. |
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