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TINS of pet food are better for you than many fast food meals, boffins have discovered.
thesun Article
Loads of pet food brands scored better than dishes served by High Street chains in research to measure fat, salt and sugar levels.
Nutrition experts discovered that Gourmet Gold cat food has just 2.9g of fat per 100g a mouth-watering EIGHT TIMES less than the percentage found in pieces of KFC.
Scientists compared 30 human meals with 15 pet foods. They found that the human foods would perform worse than much of the animal nosh under the Food Standards Agency’s “traffic light” labelling scheme.
Scientist John Searle, from the Global food-testing lab in Burton upon Trent, which carried out the tests, said: “It would not do a human any harm to eat this cat and dog food. It would be categorised in the green or amber levels. But some convenience foods would fall in the red or unhealthy category.”
The level of fat was also far lower than a McDonald’s Big Mac and a Pizza Hut meal.
The lab tests by nutrition experts discovered that Cesar dog food uses just 4.4g of fat in every 100g — and has lower salt and sugar levels than many dishes served to humans.
Researchers found that KFC chicken pieces were the unhealthiest fast food on test. They contained 23.2g of fat per 100g and 1.9g of salt. Unbelievably, ADDING fries cut the fat and salt levels, with them falling to 12g and 0.7g per 100g.
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Posted: 2006-03-29 00:10:14
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KFC fat and unhealthy? There's a turn up for the books
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Posted: 2006-03-29 03:03:42
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well then, let's have pedigree for breakfast, alpo for lunch, and whiskas for dinner!
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Posted: 2006-03-29 09:09:50
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