| Alfalfa Meal |
The aerial portion of the alfalfa plant,
reasonably free from other crop plants, weeds and mold, which has been
suncured and finely ground. |
| Animal
Digest |
Material which results from chemical and/or
enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and undecomposed animal tissue. The
animal tissues used shall be exclusive of hair, horns, teeth, hooves
and feathers, except in such trace amounts as might occur unavoidably
in good factory practice and shall be suitable for animal feed. |
| Animal Fat |
Obtained from the tissues of mammals and/or
poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It
consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains
no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common
name or names must be indicated, followed by the words "used as a
preservative". |
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| Barley |
Consists of at least 80 percent sound
barley and must not contain more than 3 percent heat-damaged kernels, 6
percent foreign material, 20 percent other grains or 10 percent wild
oats. |
| Barley
Flour |
Soft, finely ground and bolted barley meal
obtained from the milling of barley. It consists essentially of the
starch and gluten of the endosperm. |
| Beef
(meat) |
The clean flesh derived from slaughtered
cattle, and is limited to that part of the striate muscle which is
skeletal or that which is found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the
heart, or in the esophagus; with or without the accompanying and
overlying fat and the portions of the skin, sinew, nerve and blood
vessels which normally accompany the flesh. |
| Beet Pulp
("beet pulp, dried molasses" and "beet pulp, dried, plain") |
The dried residue from sugar beets |
| Brewer's
Rice |
The dried extracted residue of rice
resulting from the manufacture of wort (liquid portion of malted grain)
or beer and may contain pulverized dried spent hops in an amount not to
exceed 3 percent. |
| Brown Rice |
Unpolished rice after the kernels have been
removed. Not a complete AAFCO definition. |
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| Carrots |
Carrots (No AAFCO definition available) |
| Chicken |
The clean combination of flesh and skin
with or without accompanying bone, derived from the parts or whole
carcasses of chicken or a combination thereof, exclusive of feathers,
heads, feet and entrails. |
| Chicken
By-Product Meal |
Consists of the ground, rendered, clean
parts of the carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet,
undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such
amounts as might occur unavoidable in good processing practice. |
| Chicken
Liver Meal |
Chicken livers which have been ground or
otherwise reduced in particle size. |
| Chicken
Meal |
Chicken which has been ground or otherwise
reduced in particle size. |
| Corn |
Corn (No AAFCO definition available) |
| Corn Bran |
The outer coating of the corn kernel, with
little or none of the starchy part of the germ. |
| Corn Germ
Meal (Dry Milled) |
Ground corn germ which consists of corn
germ with other parts of the corn kernel from which part of the oil has
been removed and is the product obtained in the dry milling process of
manufacture of corn meal, corn grits, hominy feed and other corn
products. |
| Corn
Gluten |
That part of the commercial shelled corn
that remains after the extraction of the larger portion of the starch,
gluten, and term by the processes employed in the wet milling
manufacture of corn starch or syrup. |
| Corn
Gluten Meal |
The dried residue from corn after the
removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation
of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of
corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm. |
| Corn Syrup |
Concentrated juice derived from corn. |
| Cracked
Pearl Barley |
Cracked pearl barley resulting from the
manufacture of pearl barley from clean barley. |
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| Dehydrated Eggs |
Dried whole poultry eggs freed of moisture
by thermal means. |
| Digest of
Beef |
Material from beef which results from
chemical and/or enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and undecomposed tissue.
The tissues used shall be exclusive of hair, horns, teeth and hooves,
except in such trace amounts as might occur unavoidably in good factory
practice. |
| Digest of
Beef By-Products |
Material from beef which results from
chemical and/or enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and undecomposed tissue
from non-rendered clean parts, other than meat, from cattle which
includes, but is not limited to, lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, livers,
blood, bone, partially defated low-temperature fatty tissue, and
stomachs and intestines freed of their contents. It does not include
hair, horns, teeth and hooves. |
| Digest of
Poultry By-Products |
Material which results from chemical and/or
enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and undecomposed tissue from non-rendered
clean parts of carcasses of slaughtered poultry such as heads, feet,
viscera, free from fecal content and foreign matter except in such
trace amounts as might occur unavoidably in good factory practice. |
| Dried
Animal Digest |
Dried material resulting from chemical
and/or enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and undecomposed animal tissue.
The animal tissue used shall be exclusive of hair, horns, teeth, hooves
and feathers, except in such trace amounts as might occur unavoidably
in good factory practice and shall be suitable for animal feed. If it
bears a name descriptive of its kind or flavor(s), it must correspond
thereto. |
| Dried Kelp |
Dried seaweed of the families Laminaricae
and Fu-caeae. If the product is prepared by artificial drying, it may
be called "dehydrated kelp". |
| Dried
Milk Protein |
Obtained by drying the coagulated protein
residue resulting from the controlled co-precipitation of casein,
lactalbumin and minor mild proteins from defatted milk. |
| Dried
Reduced Lactose Whey |
No AAFCO definition available.
Reduced lactose whey is obtained by the selective removal of lactose
from whey. The lactose content of the dry product may not exceed 60%.
Removal of lactose is accomplished by physical separation techniques
such as precipitation, filtration, or dialysis. The acidity of reduced
lactose whey may be adjusted by the addition of safe and suitable pH
ingredients. (From US Dairy Export Council) |
Dried Whey |
The product obtained by removing water from
the whey. It contains not less than 11 percent protein nor less than 61
percent lactose. |
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| Feeding Oatmeal |
Obtained in the manufacture of rolled oat
groats or rolled oats and consists of broken oat groats, oat groat
chips, and floury portions of the oat groats, with only such quantity
of finely ground oat hulls as is unavoidable in the usual process of
commercial milling. It must not contain more than 4 percent crude fiber. |
| Fish Meal |
The clean, dried, ground tissue of
undecomposed whole fish or fish cuttings, either or both, with or
without the extraction of part of the oil. |
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| Ground Corn (ground ear corn) |
The entire ear of corn ground, without
husks, with no greater portion of cob than occurs in the ear corn in
its natural state. |
| Ground
Dehulled Oats |
No AAFCO definition. Ground
cleaned oats with hulls removed. |
| Ground
Wheat |
No AAFCO definition. A courser
grind of wheat flour. |
| Ground
Whole Brown Rice (Ground Brown Rice) |
The entire product obtained by grinding the
rice kernels after the hulls have been removed. |
| Ground
Whole Wheat |
Ground whole kernel, presumably equivalent
to AAFCO's Wheat Mill Run, Wheat Middlings, Wheat Shorts or Wheat Red
Dog, whose principal differences are in the percentage of
crude fiber. |
| Ground
Yellow Corn |
Same as ground corn, except that the corn
used is yellow in color. |
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| Kibbled Corn |
Obtained by cooking cracked corn under
steam pressure and extruding from an expeller or other mechanical
pressure device. |
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| Lamb Bone Meal |
(Steamed) dried and ground product
sterilized by cooking undecomposed bones with steam under pressure.
Grease, gelatin and meat fiber may or may not be removed. |
| Lamb
Digest |
Material resulting from chemical and/or
enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and undecomposed lamb. The tissue used
shall be exclusive of hair, horns, teeth and hooves, except in such
trace amounts as might occur unavoidably in good factory practice and
shall be suitable for animal feed. |
| Lamb Fat |
Obtained from the tissues of lamb in the
commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists
predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no
additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common
name or names must be indicated, followed by the words "used as a
preservative". |
| Lamb Meal |
The rendered product from lamb tissues,
exclusive of blood, hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure, stomach
and rumen contents except in such amounts as may occur unavoidably in
good processing practices. |
| Linseed
Meal |
The product obtained by grinding the cake
or chips which remain after removal of most of the oil from flaxseed by
a mechanical extraction process. It must contain no more than 10
percent fiber. The words "mechanical
extracted" are not required when
listing as an ingredient in the manufactured food. |
| Liver |
The hepatic gland (of whatever species is
listed). |
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| Meat and Bone Meal |
The rendered product from mammal tissues,
including bone, exclusive of blood, hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings,
manure, stomach and rumen contents, except in such amounts as may occur
unavoidably in good processing practices. |
| Meat
By-Products |
The non rendered, clean parts, other than
meat, derived from slaughtered mammals. It includes, but is not limited
to, lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, livers, blood, bone, partially
defatted low-temperature fatty tissue and stomachs and intestines freed
of their contents. It does not include hair, horns, teeth and hooves. |
| Meat Meal |
The rendered product from mammal tissues,
exclusive of blood, hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure, stomach
and rumen contents except in such amounts as may occur unavoidably in
good processing practices. |
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| Peas |
Peas (no AAFCO definition) |
| Potatoes |
Potatoes (no AAFCO definition) |
| Poultry
By-Product Meal |
Consists of the ground, rendered, clean
parts of the carcass of slaughtered poultry, such as necks, feet,
undeveloped eggs, intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such
amounts as might occur unavoidably in good processing practices. |
| Poultry
Digest |
Material which results from chemical and/or
enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and undecomposed poultry tissue. |
| Poultry
Fat (feed grade) |
Primarily obtained from the tissue of
poultry in the commercial process of rendering or extracting. It shall
contain only the fatty matter natural to the product produced under
good manufacturing practices and shall contain no added free fatty
acids or other materials obtained from fat. It must contain not less
than 90 percent total fatty acids and not more than 3 percent of
unsaponifiables and impurities. It shall have a minimum titer of 33
degrees Celsius. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names
must be indicated, followed by the word "preservative(s)". |
| Powdered
Cellulose |
Purified, mechanically disintegrated
cellulose prepared by processing alpha cellulose obtained as a pulp
from fibrous plant materials. |
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| Rice Bran |
The pericarp or bran layer and germ of the
rice, with only such quantity of hull fragments, chipped, broken, or
brewer's rice, and calcium carbonate as is unavoidable in the regular
milling of edible rice. |
| Rice Flour |
No AAFCO definition available.
Rice is ground into flour, which can be used in place of wheat flour
for baking. Rice flour is gluten-free and non-allergenic. This type of
flour has a wide variety of uses such as baby foods, sauces, gravies
and cosmetics. |
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| Soy Flour |
No AAFCO definition available.
Soy flour is made from roasted soybeans ground into a fine powder. |
| Soybean
Hulls |
Consist primarily of the outer covering of
the soybean. |
| Soybean
Meal (Dehulled, solvent Extracted) |
Obtained by grinding the flakes remaining
after removal of most of the oil from dehulled soybeans by a solvent
extraction process. |
| Soybean
Meal (Mechanical Extracted) |
Obtained by grinding the cake or chips
which remain after removal of most of the oil from the soybeans by a
mechanical extraction process. |
| Soybean
Mill Run |
Composed of soybean hulls and such bean
meats that adhere to the hulls and such bean meats that adhere to the
hulls which results from normal milling operations in the production of
dehulled soybean meal. |
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| Tallow |
Animal fats with titer above 40 degrees
Celsius. |
| Turkey |
Unspecified turkey. (No complete
AAFCO dog food ingredients description) |
| Turkey
Meal |
The ground clean combination of flesh and
skin with or without accompanying bone, derived from the parts or whole
carcasses of turkey or a combination thereof, exclusive of feathers,
heads, feet and entrails. |
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| Wheat Bran |
The coarse outer covering of the wheat
kernel as separated from cleaned and scoured wheat in the usual process
of commercial milling. |
| Wheat
Flour |
Wheat flour together with fine particles of
wheat bran, wheat germ and the offal from the "tail of the mill". This
product must be obtained in the usual process of commercial milling and
must not contain more than 1.5 percent crude fiber. |
| Wheat
Germ Meal |
Consists chiefly of wheat germ together
with some bran and middlings or short. It must contain not less than 25
percent crude protein and 7 percent crude fat. |
| Wheat
Mill Run |
Coarse wheat bran, fine particles of wheat
bran, wheat shorts, wheat germ, wheat flour and the offal from the
"tail of the mill". This product must be obtained in the usual process
of commercial milling and must contain not more than 9.5 percent
crude fiber. |
| Whey |
The product obtained as a fluid by
separating the coagulum from milk, cream or skimmed milk and from which
a portion of the milk fat may have been removed. |
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