Table 1.

Calculated dietary nutrient composition (g/1000 kcal) and metabolizable energy (ME)

	Heat-processed*	Commercial raw †	Homemade raw ‡
ME (kcal/g)**	1.46	1.56	1.0
Protein	89.5	93.3	176.4
Fat	72.5	64.2	27.5
Nitrogen-free extract	7.5	13.7	–
Crude fiber	1.1	1.6	0.3
Moisture %	71.8	70.7	78.5

^*Ingredients: turkey, chicken, turkey broth, chicken broth, chicken meal, herring, carrots, whole egg, salmon meal, natural flavor, carrageenan, tomato flakes, cottage cheese, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate, apples, guar gum, vitamin E supplement, vitamin A supplement, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin B12 supplement, thiamine mononitrate, niacin supplement, d-calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin supplement, folic acid, biotin, zinc amino acid chelate, cobalt amino acid chelate, copper amino acid chelate, manganese amino acid chelate, potassium iodide, inulin, herring oil, choline chloride, potassium chloride, salt, sunflower oil, taurine, sodium phosphate, beta carotene

^†Ingredients: free-range organic chicken, apples, Atlantic clams, beets, broccoli, carrots, chicken hearts, chicken liver, cod liver oil, dried kelp, dried yeast, flax, flax seed, lecithin, mushrooms, water sufficient for processing, oysters, peas, rice bran, spinach, wheat germ, wheat germ oil

^‡Ingredients: skinless chicken breast, supplement (freeze-dried bovine bone [New Zealand], egg yolk, whey protein isolate, beef liver, freeze-dried krill, taurine, cellulose, kelp, vitamin E, vitamin D3, vitamin A, vitamin B complex)

^**ME (kcal/g) = (FI × GE_food) – ( F × GE_feces) – [(P_food – P_feces) × c]/FI, where FI = food intake, GE_food = gross energy of food (kcal/g), F = feces, GE_feces = gross energy of feces (kcal/g), P_food = amount of protein in food (g), P_feces = amount of protein in feces, c = correction factor of 0.86 for cats