Advanced Protocol™ Insectivore Diet

[petman]

What do you think of this food?, I am not thinking of switching, I am feeding CSFCLS Lite, but I found this food and thought I would share what I found :)

Advanced Protocol™ Insectivore Diet is a complete diet for insectivores such as shrews, moles, hedgehogs, opossums and insectivorous bats. It can also be fed to anteaters and armadillos.

Features and Benefits
Designed to be complete and balanced for insectivores, no supplementation necessary
Highly fortified, may be fed with fruits, greens, etc.
Contains fish oil and lecithin, rich source of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids and phospholipids, respectively
Contains over 10% crude fiber which helps simulate the chitin component of the insectivore’s diet
Highly palatable
Contains natural vitamin E

Product Forms Available
Extruded pellet, 1.6 mm x 1.6 mm (1/16"x1/16")
Meal (ground pellets), special order

G U A R A N T E E D A N A L Y S I S
Crude protein not less than 28.0%

Crude fat not less than 12.0%

Crude fiber not more than 13.0%

Ash not more than 8.0%


I N G R E D I E N T S
Poultry by-product meal, poultry meal, ground brown rice, dried beet pulp, ground wheat, ground soybean hulls, dehulled soybean meal, corn flour, fructose, dried egg product, ground aspen, poultry fat preserved with ethoxyquin, poultry digest, powdered cellulose, dried apple pomace, animal fat preserved with BHA, wheat germ, dried whey, shrimp meal, fish meal, brewers dried yeast, soybean oil, fish oil, lecithin, phosphoric acid, salt, DL-methionine, taurine, potassium chloride, choline chloride, pyridoxine hydrochloride, menadione dimethylpyrimidinol bisulfite (source of vitamin K), d-alpha tocopheryl acetate (source of natural vitamin E), thiamin mononitrate, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), cholecalciferol (source of vitamin D3), inositol, biotin, vitamin A acetate, folic acid, ethoxyquin (a preservative), riboflavin, cyanocobalamin (source of vitamin B12), calcium pantothenate, calcium carbonate, nicotinic acid, ferrous sulfate, copper sulfate, zinc oxide, manganous oxide, calcium iodate, ferrous carbonate, zinc sulfate, cobalt carbonate, sodium selenite.

[petman]

I found this food on the Purina web site In the Lab Diets :confused:

[platnymbit]

I N G R E D I E N T S
Poultry by-product meal, poultry meal, ground brown rice, dried beet pulp, ground wheat, ground soybean hulls, dehulled soybean meal, corn flour, fructose, dried egg product, ground aspen, poultry fat preserved with ethoxyquin, poultry digest, powdered cellulose, dried apple pomace, animal fat preserved with BHA, wheat germ, dried whey, shrimp meal, fish meal, brewers dried yeast, soybean oil, fish oil, lecithin, phosphoric acid, salt, DL-methionine, taurine, potassium chloride, choline chloride, pyridoxine hydrochloride, menadione dimethylpyrimidinol bisulfite (source of vitamin K), d-alpha tocopheryl acetate (source of natural vitamin E), thiamin mononitrate, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), cholecalciferol (source of vitamin D3), inositol, biotin, vitamin A acetate, folic acid, ethoxyquin (a preservative), riboflavin, cyanocobalamin (source of vitamin B12), calcium pantothenate, calcium carbonate, nicotinic acid, ferrous sulfate, copper sulfate, zinc oxide, manganous oxide, calcium iodate, ferrous carbonate, zinc sulfate, cobalt carbonate, sodium selenite.


At first glance the food looks okay, but when looking at the ingredients you will see that both BHA and ethoxyquin are in the food. Preservatives, I believe, have been known (or are suspected to have) cause cancer in animals and hedgehogs.

[Super Chin]

Very true. There are foods that are much worse, but to be safe I wouldn't feed this one.
If you are only feeding one food at the moment, I would suggest finding another food to feed. It is a good idea to feed two or more foods because it guarantees that the foods meet the hedgehog's dietary needs, and provides something to fall back on if you can no longer obtain the first food.
I would suggest foods such as Wellness, Buffalo Blue, Wysong, Royal Canin Slim, etc...
For food reviews please check either www.pogstarhedgehogs.com or http://www.fairfaxhedgehogs.com/Feeding%20Page%20of%20Hedgehog%20Site.htm
Many good foods can be purchased very cheaply from www.petfooddirect.com

Hope this helps! :)

[yourmine]

Also, the first ingredients are by-product and meal based, not to mention, there is rice, wheat, soybean hulls, soybean meal, flour, and a lot of other filler material that your hedgie doesn't need. Why would anybody ever feed their animals aspen? Do they honestly think that hedgehogs in the wild eat trees?

[paris26]

I wouldn't feed it to my crew personally for the following reasons:
1. the preservatives mentioned above
2. poultry by product meal - beaks, feathers, feet, etc. Not a promising source of quality meat
3.ground aspen- I can think of better sources of fiber to add to my hedgie mix
4.poultry digest This is basically bird poop. Sounds good right?

I would stick to the Chicken Soup myself

[hedgewood]

mmmmmmmmmm............beaks, feat and bird poop.................lol.

[Kalandra]

Isn't this just ZooFare (aka Insectivore Fare)? Or was it Mazuri that was adding the aspen?

[paris26]

Isn't this just ZooFare (aka Insectivore Fare)? Or was it Mazuri that was adding the aspen?

I thought it was the Mazuri Insectivore diet

[Kalandra]

Could be, I didn't bother to go look up ingredients ;) I just knew I had seen them before under a different name.. and were of a food I would never feed.