From:
sukiecrandall@telocity.com
Date: 2002-10-14 15:36:26 UTC
Subject: RE: animal fat vs. vegetable fat
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <8563350.1034609786112.JavaMail.root@scandium>
Author wrote:
> Does it matter whether the source of fat in ferret food is derived from an animal or vegetable source?
Yes, for the GENERAL QUESTION but NOT neccesarily in your specific case.
If memroy serves Canola oil is pretty well monostaturate like olive oil and I can't recall any warnings about monosturated oils.
The problem that i know about occurs with large amounts of polyunsaturated oils or marine fish oils: Nutritional Steatitis (yellow fat disease). The addition of Vitamin E, protects carnivores against that problem.
I did not find any warnings about monosaturated oils and can not recall hearing of any, so I suspect it's fine.