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Special Ingredient Saturday – Powdered Cellulose

March 25, 2017 by Dr Cathy 1 Comment

wood and axe2Recently, clients have asked me to review their food labels and one ingredient has been showing up frequently is powdered cellulose. What the heck it that?

This hard to understand definition is put forth by the organization, AAFCO (look on your food bag) that “ensures” pet food is balanced to meet a minimum nutrition level: purified, mechanically disintegrated cellulose prepared by processing alpha cellulose obtained as pulp from fibrous plant material.

Let’s put it in English: wood shavings or wood pulp. Yummy – not really. We pay for that.

Anyway, here’s what the Wall Street Journal says about it, and some of the not so awesome places wood shavings shows up in our human food.

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  1. Trudy Weaver-Garrett says

    March 25, 2017 at 6:37 pm

    Thanks for the update….

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