Eliana Teshima

TL;DR: Variations in diet digestibility and post-prandial response can be explained by differences in chemical composition of each starch source including fibre content and starch granule structure.

TL;DR: Energy supply, even if modest and close to resting energy requirements appears to be positively associated with hospital discharge, however, disease severity was the main negative factor on outcome and also had a negative effect on energy intake, making it difficult to separate the effects of both factors when interpreting hospital discharge.

TL;DR: For all fibre analyses, there was a significant correlation between fibre intake and faecal fibre excretion, and a combination of TDF and CF analyses might give good information on the content of total, unfermentable (CF) and partially fermentable fibre (TDF-CF) in pet foods.

TL;DR: Findings confirm previous studies that found low digestibility of nutrients in some old cats, and support evidence that this trend is even more important in less digestible dry foods, and suggest that mineral formulations do not need to be varied in diets for adult cats of different ages.

TL;DR: In this article, the chemical composition, apparent digestibility coefficients (ADC) and metabolizable energy (ME) of 16 adult dog foods of different commercial categories were determined using the chromic oxide method, in a randomly assigned experiment.