Very interesting; I wish I understood the science enough to add anything. It just makes me want to ask more questions such as: how is it known other supplements boast having the prEformed vitamin A, but don't actually contain it?
And then, if you do gutload your feeders with meat on a bi-weekly basis, is it white or red meat? Or does that not make a difference? One thing I know for sure, they'd be eating good lol
There is an ingredient list so you just go through and ask yourself "what is retinol acetate". Other suppliers list the raw and what it is supplying (retinol acetate vit A).
The issue of feeding "meat" to lizards that mostly eat insects, is their organs cant process it well. Take a beardy. Feed it pinkies and salad, and it will last 8 years. Feed same animal insects and salad, and it will live 12 years.
You want to give a rat cancer, just feed it enough whey and meat and you will have some right quick.
As for gut loading. Animals are like legos, you cant boost a feeders vitamin properties. once you have enough red blocks, you dont get a feeder with extra red blocks no matter what you feed it, and if you dont have enough yellow blocks you get less feeder, not a feeder with less yellow blocks. If you take two feeders, fed completely different guy loads, have them with empty stomachs, grind them up and analize, they will have the exact same values.
Gut load is another story, as its basically just undigested chow, and gut load stuffing of feeder is 10%(meal worms) up to 40%(dubia) by weight. So if you are feeding your feeders alot of animal meat, then its just a feeder with undigested animal meat inside.
