Hello all. Maybe these have been mentioned before? Sometimes I have a hard time finding actual concrete data and studies all collected in an easy to use resource. I often use USDA database for nutrition with my work (I'm a farmer and food processor in my boring life), to formulate my nutrition labels. But as a pet keeper as well, I have found even that vast database has some holes in information. Namely, feeder invertebrates. Especially in some countries like the USA, where many species of insects weren't even allowed into the FDA realm as they were considered contaminants of food (this has changed), rather than an integral part of the feed system (mostly referring to both human and agricultural feed stuffs).
Anyway, just in case it isn't already obvious to all you good folks on this forum, this resource is a goodie. We use this as a base, and source of reference material in agricultural animal feed. I use this site a lot for formulating chicken feed, for example. I know the insect portion is quite lacking, but it's referenced by peer reviewed papers and has easy to follow tables on nutrients that we can plug I to data sets on the computer.
By binomial name (mostly plants):
https://www.feedipedia.org/content/species
Insect category:
https://www.feedipedia.org/content/feeds?category=17919
Apologies if these kinds of links aren't allowed. I think it's fine, but feel free to delete if I overstepped a line here
What other sources of confirmed nutritional datasets are available? Please post some links or resources. I think these are alway, by nature, variable and not exactly precise; however, they make a very good foundation for building up our understanding on how to feed and supplement our various pet species when coupled with studies of specific nutritional needs
Anyway, just in case it isn't already obvious to all you good folks on this forum, this resource is a goodie. We use this as a base, and source of reference material in agricultural animal feed. I use this site a lot for formulating chicken feed, for example. I know the insect portion is quite lacking, but it's referenced by peer reviewed papers and has easy to follow tables on nutrients that we can plug I to data sets on the computer.
By binomial name (mostly plants):
https://www.feedipedia.org/content/species
Insect category:
https://www.feedipedia.org/content/feeds?category=17919
Apologies if these kinds of links aren't allowed. I think it's fine, but feel free to delete if I overstepped a line here
What other sources of confirmed nutritional datasets are available? Please post some links or resources. I think these are alway, by nature, variable and not exactly precise; however, they make a very good foundation for building up our understanding on how to feed and supplement our various pet species when coupled with studies of specific nutritional needs
