AbbeysDad
Fish Gatherer
I'd like someone to explain the benefit of wheat flour
The benefit (as Nick points out) is economic as well as a processing requirement. Since many of these prepared foods do not contain a 'wet protein', they need starch as a binder to produce the flakes, pellets, sticks or whatever.
It's also an inexpensive way to also increase the somewhat deceptive crude protein amount that's listed (as there's protein in grains, but as I understand it, not really absorbed by fish!)
I would guess that soy (since soybeans are a vegetable) would in some ways be better than wheat, rice, gluten or other starches...but I would still choose any food that does not begin in the ingredient list with fishmeal !!!!
The benefit (as Nick points out) is economic as well as a processing requirement. Since many of these prepared foods do not contain a 'wet protein', they need starch as a binder to produce the flakes, pellets, sticks or whatever.
It's also an inexpensive way to also increase the somewhat deceptive crude protein amount that's listed (as there's protein in grains, but as I understand it, not really absorbed by fish!)
I would guess that soy (since soybeans are a vegetable) would in some ways be better than wheat, rice, gluten or other starches...but I would still choose any food that does not begin in the ingredient list with fishmeal !!!!
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