I intend to add a mix of dry food with fresh chicken or beef with some of the named vegetables such as peas, carrots, beets, tomato's, spinach and brown rice, barley and egg. I have already worked out a nutrition value list from U.S.D.A. and only need to weigh my ingrediants so as not to go to far beyond daily recommended allowances for vitamins and minerals for dogs.
But the commercial dry food (Kibbles n Bits) does not give nutrition values in the same way as human nutrition labels. The nutrition label list all of the vitamins and minerals as Minimum or maximum in percent. So how does someone interpret that in real values?
My next question concerns How to find the equivelent value for International Units to micrograms for vitamins A, D and etc?
Here is what I have:
I am going to start out with 130 grams of dry food (28.35 grams = 1 Ounce). The nutrition label says the contents contains 5100 IU/Kg of vitamin A. Now according to the National Research Council, the recommended allowance of vitamin A for dogs is 379 micrograms. So I have to go from IU to mcg.
Is there someone out there that can solve this? If so, please display the math so that I can use it to solve for other vitamins or minerals. Thanks.
But the commercial dry food (Kibbles n Bits) does not give nutrition values in the same way as human nutrition labels. The nutrition label list all of the vitamins and minerals as Minimum or maximum in percent. So how does someone interpret that in real values?
My next question concerns How to find the equivelent value for International Units to micrograms for vitamins A, D and etc?
Here is what I have:
I am going to start out with 130 grams of dry food (28.35 grams = 1 Ounce). The nutrition label says the contents contains 5100 IU/Kg of vitamin A. Now according to the National Research Council, the recommended allowance of vitamin A for dogs is 379 micrograms. So I have to go from IU to mcg.
Is there someone out there that can solve this? If so, please display the math so that I can use it to solve for other vitamins or minerals. Thanks.