Why do you use the following ingredients in Medi-Cal/Royal Canin veterinary diets?
• Beet Pulp This is an excellent source of fermentable and non-fermentable fibre which helps to promote normal bowel function, creating small firm stools. Beet pulp comes from sugar beets, not red beets. The myth that beet pulp turns a dogs coat red is false, based on the incorrect assumption that beet pulp came from red beets. • Brewers Rice This ingredient consists of the small fragments of rice kernels that have been separated from the larger kernels of milled rice (AAFCO, 2002). Brewer’s rice is a good source of digestible carbohydrate. • Carnitine Carnitine is a conditionally-essential amino acid (a healthy body normally synthesizes it well, but in a disease condition or physiological problem the body may not synthesize enough of it). Carnitine helps turn fat into energy for body cells. It transports fatty acids across the cell membrane. In weight loss, fats are mobilized into the bloodstream carnitine helps their utilization as energy. • Cellulose Cellulose is a good source of in
