I see this listed in the ingredients of a lot of different cat foods, but it is not in the one that I feed. I know that it is supposed to enhance the flavor of the food, but what does it consist of exactly? Is it similar to animal by-products?
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Animal Digest?
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Definition found in Wiki:
A cooked-down broth made from specified or unspecified parts of animals (depending on the type of digest used). If the source is unspecified (e.g. "Animal" or "Poultry", the animals used can be obtained from any source, so there is no control over quality or contamination. Any kind of animal can be included: "4-D animals" (dead, diseased, disabled, or dying prior to slaughter), goats, pigs, horses, restaurant and supermarket refuse and so on. Rats, miscellaneous road kills, animals euthanized at animal control facilities are not permitted................. Any poisoned animal matter is prohibited but not diseased, i.e., the bacteria or viruses become a digested part of the digest and no longer pose any threat.
As defined by the AAFCO: It is material which results from chemical and/or enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and undecomposed animal tissue. The animal tissues used shall be exclusive of hair, horns, teeth, hooves and feathers, except in such trace amounts as might occur unavoidably in good factory practice and shall be suitable for animal feed.
A cooked-down broth made from specified or unspecified parts of animals (depending on the type of digest used). If the source is unspecified (e.g. "Animal" or "Poultry", the animals used can be obtained from any source, so there is no control over quality or contamination. Any kind of animal can be included: "4-D animals" (dead, diseased, disabled, or dying prior to slaughter), goats, pigs, horses, restaurant and supermarket refuse and so on. Rats, miscellaneous road kills, animals euthanized at animal control facilities are not permitted................. Any poisoned animal matter is prohibited but not diseased, i.e., the bacteria or viruses become a digested part of the digest and no longer pose any threat.
As defined by the AAFCO: It is material which results from chemical and/or enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and undecomposed animal tissue. The animal tissues used shall be exclusive of hair, horns, teeth, hooves and feathers, except in such trace amounts as might occur unavoidably in good factory practice and shall be suitable for animal feed.
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And sometimes even they don't know the answer because it already arrived as "meal" at their processing plant.
