[Criosphynx]

Can you guys tell me the signifigance of this ingrediant?

I bought a small bag of Solid Gold to try on Emma (she was wierd skin) and it proudly on the bag proclaims "no sunflower oil"!!

While at the feed store i also grabbed a free sample of Canidae which on the bag proclaimed proudly that it contained "sunflower oil"


Huh? What gives?

[Rupert's Mom]

That is weird, I’m really not sure about sunflower oil and dogs but when I googled it I found this quote…
“One of the most useful sources of energy for a dog is corn oil. This energy source supplies nine calories in each gram, two hundred and fifty calories in each ounce, around 124 calories in each tablespoonful, and about 62 calories in each teaspoonful. It also, furnishes almost 10 times the amount of fatty acids that are used as the only fat in a food used by a dog. It is rather cheap, and last for quite some time. Most other vegetable oils which can be used satisfactorily as an energy source for a dog are olive oil, peanut oil, sunflower oil and soybean oil.”

Basically sunflower oil is a source of fatty acids and some dog foods will promote that as saying dogs need it to be healthy and have energy and other foods with say no sunflower oil because they have other (maybe better, who knows) types of fatty acids to give the dogs energy.

[Criosphynx]

Originally Posted by Rupert's Mom

That is weird, I’m really not sure about sunflower oil and dogs but when I googled it I found this quote…
“One of the most useful sources of energy for a dog is corn oil. This energy source supplies nine calories in each gram, two hundred and fifty calories in each ounce, around 124 calories in each tablespoonful, and about 62 calories in each teaspoonful. It also, furnishes almost 10 times the amount of fatty acids that are used as the only fat in a food used by a dog. It is rather cheap, and last for quite some time. Most other vegetable oils which can be used satisfactorily as an energy source for a dog are olive oil, peanut oil, sunflower oil and soybean oil.”

Basically sunflower oil is a source of fatty acids and some dog foods will promote that as saying dogs need it to be healthy and have energy and other foods with say no sunflower oil because they have other (maybe better, who knows) types of fatty acids to give the dogs energy.

hmmm, maybe..... I was just confused because i thought they were both comparibly good foods. I dunno....wierd.

[wyx]

Vegetable oils in general are very poor fat sources for dogs. Corn oil is about the worst, but sunflower isn't much better. They are generally badly balanced with regard to the EFAs, contain far too much PUFA and are likely to be badly oxidized by the kind of heat processing the typical kibble goes through.