THE NUTRITIONAL PUZZLE

Making a balanced food is like making a complex jigsaw including about 50 pieces, each piece containing a nutrient indispensable to the animal, all the ingredients being formulated in adequate proportions and complementing one another to contribute to a small or larger piece of the Jigsaw.
It is easy to see that it is impossible to feed our pets adequately

with food not very different from human food. It won't be coo ked enough; it will be too rich in carbohydrates, and ill-suited to their condition or morphology.
The nutritional approach means combining in one single food a complex jigsaw of just the right amount of about fifty nutrients needed to meet the real needs, precise and specific, of each animal


THE MAIN NUTRIENTS IN HEALTH NUTRITION

Nutritional balance in food:

  • Provides the energy constantly required by the body,
  • Provides the materials needed to permanently build and renew organs,
  • provides small amounts of those substances that are essential to the smooth functioning of the biological phenomena permanently occurring in the cells.

Carbohydrates
Organic compounds essentially used to provide energy, some of them maintaining a structural role while others help keep the digestive tract clean. Carbohydrates are divided into two groups according to their composition:

  • Simple carbohydrates, also called "sugars" (glucose, fructose, saccharose, lactose, etc.) found in fruit, honey, milk, sugar and derived products.
  • Complex carbohydrates, including starches (energy source) and dietary fibres (for overall hygiene of the digestive tract)

Lipids
The main component of fat, lipids have a high energy content in a small volume (fats, oils). They also play a functional role in the body by means of the vitamins dissolved in them (vitamins A, D E and K) and the presence of essential life-sustaining lipid mole¬cules (indispensable or essential fatty acids).

Vitamin
A vitamin is an organic substance needed by the body, with no energy value of its own, and that the animal cannot synthesize. I in sufficient amounts to function normally. Therefore, an ade¬quate daily supply of it must absolutely be provided by the diet.

Minerals
In a food, everything organic matter or water consists of rock salt. Collectively they are also referred to as ash. According to their level of incorporation in the food, one calls them "macro - nutrients" (eg. calcium and phosphorus) or "trace elements" (iron, copper, zinc...).

Protids
Protids or proteins are the only substances in the body that contains sulphur. They provide life-essential elements: amino-acids, which are the building blocks of the cells that make up the body. They have a number of vital functions allied to growth, reproduction and immunity to name but three. Proteins are also required to manufacture the enzymes that trigger chemical reactions in the body.

Source: File developed with the help of the veterinarians of the Royal Canin Research and Development Centre).
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