Pet Food Score - Petfood Advisor

Hello Emily,

Thank you for your thoughtful question.

Petfood Advisor was created because the world of pet nutrition has become increasingly confusing for consumers.

Over the years, more and more pet owners have been exposed to:

* contradictory information,
* viral social media content ...

Hello Emily,

This is an extremely important topic because carbohydrates are one of the least transparent areas of commercial pet food labeling.

In many countries, manufacturers are not required to display carbohydrate percentages directly on the packaging. Most labels only provide:

* proteins ...

Hello Emily,

This is actually one of the main goals behind the Petfood Advisor project.

Unlike applications that impose a fixed and opaque universal ranking, Petfood Advisor is designed to help users build their own interpretation based on their pet’s specific needs and priorities.

The project is ...

Evaluating the digestibility of pet food ingredients is actually very difficult to do just by looking at the packaging. Digestibility is an "invisible" criterion that cannot be determined by a simple label scan or summarized by a single number.

Here is why evaluating it is so challenging:
It goes ...

Hello Emily,

This is an excellent question because, at first glance, Petfood Advisor tools may appear similar to Nutri-Score systems. Both display nutritional information and compare products. However, the philosophy behind them is fundamentally different.

A traditional Nutri-Score approach tries ...

Hello Emily,

Thank you for your question. This is actually one of the most important discussions in modern pet nutrition.

The main reason why Petfood Advisor does not give simple A-B-C-D-E scores to kibble is because animal nutrition is far more complex than a school-style grade or a “good vs bad ...

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