Dog Food Healthier Than Fast Food

The London Times reports:

THE epitaph for a horrible meal used to be “I wouldn’t feed it to my dog”. A new analysis has shown, however, that pet food is now healthier than many fast foods, containing less fat, salt and sugar.

Laboratory tests carried out last week found that a can of Gourmet Gold, a popular brand of cat meat, contained 2.9g of fat per 100g, one eighth the level of KFC chicken pieces and less than a third that of a McDonald’s Big Mac or a Pizza Hut pizza.

Cesar dog food contained 4.4g of fat per 100g, higher than the cat meat but still much lower than fast foods. Levels of salt and sugar in the pet food were also substantially lower than in the human meals.

Nutritionists said this weekend that the findings highlighted the continuing problem of unhealthy amounts of fat, salt and sugar in food.

Earlier this month the Food Standards Agency launched a red, amber and green “traffic light” scheme to indicate on food packaging the proportion of unhealthy ingredients.

“On all levels the cat and dog foods that we analysed would be categorised in the green or amber levels, while some convenience foods aimed at humans would fall in the red or unhealthy category,” said John Searle, the scientist who carried out the pet food analysis at the government accredited Global food testing laboratory in Burton-upon-Tren

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