Custom Diets for Lab Animal Research
If you are looking for research diets for your lab animals, we believe this page will be invaluable to your research. In order to help you, we provide a list of links to various pages on our website where you can find detailed and up-to-date resources.
Custom Diets
- various research diets
- mineral mixes
- vitamin mixes
- the typical caloric density of our ingredients
- an explanation of our diet numbering system
- our pricing system
Additionally, you can use our search bar to find the specific information for the types of diets you are interested in.
Mineral Mix Compositions
The elements used in our mineral mix compositions are found in this comprehensive chart. In addition, we provide you with detailed information regarding the quantity of the elements used in each type of custom diets. Understanding what’s in your research diets is important for quality research. Find more information about our experimental and custom diets by searching for our other custom diets using our search bar.
We offer a useful chart to determine the vitamin mix compositions of various diets for guinea pigs, monkeys, hamsters, chicks and rabbits and other lab animals.
The table on this page lists typical caloric density values for commonly used diet ingredients. In most cases, these values were calculated by applying the Atwater Values (4 kcal/gm for protein and carbohydrates, and 9 kcal/gm for fat) to data (on a “dry basis”) determined by Proximate Analysis (moisture, protein, fat, fiber, ash, and carbohydrate by difference).
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