Kcals per cup??

RE: Kcals per cup??

James Colver Cert. Ed, RVN — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 16:06:13 GMT

Here are a couple of sources to affirm that calculation (note that these tell you to multiply your answer by 10 to give kcal per kilo rather than kcal per 100g)

http://petfood.aafco.org/Calorie-Content

http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=1+2244&aid=2842

Hope it all makes sense :)

RE: Kcals per cup??

James Colver Cert. Ed, RVN — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 15:57:50 GMT

...also, the calculation is different for cat food!

RE: Kcals per cup??

James Colver Cert. Ed, RVN — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 15:57:11 GMT

(also note that many pet food labels do not list the %carbohydrate for some reason - so to ascertain the %carbohydrate, just add up every other nutrient and subtract the total from 100 - which I did with the food that you mentioned above)

RE: Kcals per cup??

James Colver Cert. Ed, RVN — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 15:55:09 GMT

No probs :) Can't remember where it's from, I had made a note of it ages ago - will try to find a reference.

RE: Kcals per cup??

Hannah25uk — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 09:17:27 GMT

Hi James this calculation is very very helpful. Thanks x

RE: Kcals per cup??

James Colver Cert. Ed, RVN — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 18:13:35 GMT

There is also a formula you can use to work out ME of dog food – ME (in kcal per 100g) = (3.5 x protein content) + (8.5 x fat content) + (3.5 x carbohydrate content)

Using this, I calculated the ME of this food (using the product info online) to be ~75kcal per 100g of the food (or 0.75kcal per gram)

Hope this helps x

RE: Kcals per cup??

James Colver Cert. Ed, RVN — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 17:57:56 GMT

could you not weigh the contents of the cup and then divide the kcal / cup by how many grams the cup contains to give you kcal / gram..?