Toward a healthier food for Fido: Corn provides promising fiber alternative

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Corn fiber may provide a healthier more economical ingredient in dog food than fibers now in use a new study shows. Credit: Courtesy of USDA-Agricultural Research Service
Corn fiber may provide a healthier, more economical ingredient in dog food than fibers now in use, a new study shows. Credit: Courtesy of USDA-Agricultural Research Service

In addition to helping fill gasoline tanks with alcohol-based fuel, corn may have a new role in filling Fido’s bowl with more healthful food, nutritional biochemists in Illinois are reporting. They found that corn fiber shows promise as a more economical and healthier ingredient in dog food than some of the fibers now in use. Their study is scheduled for the March 26 issue of ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.


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