A diet change from dry food to beef induces reversible changes on the faecal microbiota in healthy, adult client-owned dogs

Table 2 Ingredients and nutrient composition of the rations during the seven-week dietary intervention study

	Rations
	CD	LMB	MMB	HMB	MB
Ingredients, % of fresh weight in ration
CD	100	61	34	15	-
MB	-	39	66	85	100
Nutrient composition, g/100 g DM
Crude protein	27.1	32.5	38.9	46.2	55.3
Crude lipid	16.3	21.0	26.7	33.1	41.2
NFE	48.3	39.1	28.1	15.6	0
Crude fibre	1.2	1.0	0.7	0.4	0
Fibre (NSP)	10.4	8.4	6.1	3.4	0
Ash	7.0	6.4	5.6	4.7	3.5
ME (MJ/100 g DM)	1.80	1.93	2.09	2.28	2.50
DM in ration, as fed	92.2	69.5	53.8	42.7	34.0

Abbreviations and diet codes: CD commercial dry food (Felleskjøpet’s Labb adult), DM dry matter, HMB high minced beef, LMB low minced beef, MB minced beef (retail sourced, Norway), ME metabolizable energy, MJ megajoules, MMB moderate minced beef, NFE nitrogen-free extract, NSP non-starch polysaccharides

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