George&Bert
Member Since 2009
There is a blog that accuses Wysong of misleading advertising so I wrote and asked. Below, is the reply. Please comment if you wish. I had listed the former figures to see if they were still relevant.
Wysong:
The figures in your nutritional information chart below should still be accurate.
Those diets have not undergone significant formulation changes.
There is no more appropriate dry diet on the market for diabetic animals than Epigen™, and the Optimal Health Feeding Program advised by Dr. Wysong (see: http://www.wysong.net/pet-health-and-nu ... rogram.php).
The only carbs present in Epigen 90™ are from meat and organ glycogen, and plant fibers. I understand that you’d like to go straight to establishing a percent of carbohydrates, but it is important to understand the sources of the carbohydrates in Epigen™ as this is what makes it so unique and biologically appropriate. Whereas all other dry diets contain carbohydrate content from unnatural starch ingredients, Epigen™ does not. The only carbohydrates in Epigen™ follow what would be consumed in the natural diet. We do not quantitate glycogen and plant fiber as that would be misleading consumers into believing that percentages are the objective of health and nutrition.
This distinction is critical especially for diabetic creatures. It is the difference between generating an insulin spike and not. X number of carbs from meat and organ glycogen, and plant fibers, is not the same as X number of carbs from starch and sugar.
We estimate that as fed Epigen 90™ contains less than 6% carbohydrates in the form they naturally occur in the ingredients.
Please note that although the manufacturers you cite may detail percentages to appeal to a particular market, a person cannot know if these values are correct without lab testing each batch of product produced by that manufacturer. This is why targeting percentages in foods does not and has never worked for achieving long-term health. One can neither know what the percentages truly are, nor exactly how the percentages impact any given animal.
Wysong:
The figures in your nutritional information chart below should still be accurate.
Those diets have not undergone significant formulation changes.
There is no more appropriate dry diet on the market for diabetic animals than Epigen™, and the Optimal Health Feeding Program advised by Dr. Wysong (see: http://www.wysong.net/pet-health-and-nu ... rogram.php).
The only carbs present in Epigen 90™ are from meat and organ glycogen, and plant fibers. I understand that you’d like to go straight to establishing a percent of carbohydrates, but it is important to understand the sources of the carbohydrates in Epigen™ as this is what makes it so unique and biologically appropriate. Whereas all other dry diets contain carbohydrate content from unnatural starch ingredients, Epigen™ does not. The only carbohydrates in Epigen™ follow what would be consumed in the natural diet. We do not quantitate glycogen and plant fiber as that would be misleading consumers into believing that percentages are the objective of health and nutrition.
This distinction is critical especially for diabetic creatures. It is the difference between generating an insulin spike and not. X number of carbs from meat and organ glycogen, and plant fibers, is not the same as X number of carbs from starch and sugar.
We estimate that as fed Epigen 90™ contains less than 6% carbohydrates in the form they naturally occur in the ingredients.
Please note that although the manufacturers you cite may detail percentages to appeal to a particular market, a person cannot know if these values are correct without lab testing each batch of product produced by that manufacturer. This is why targeting percentages in foods does not and has never worked for achieving long-term health. One can neither know what the percentages truly are, nor exactly how the percentages impact any given animal.
