Your question.
What is the sodium content of Viyo Recuperation?
The sodium content is: 0.176 g/100 g for dogs and 0.177 g/100 g for cats (analysis on finished product). But some vets are thinking of the combination of diet + Viyo Recuperation, so: sodium content of product: 0.94% DM (dry matter) – more important is if you give a well balanced diet, what will be the increase in sodium % on a daily base? Without Viyo Recuperation, a diet normally provides 0.35% sodium (Na+). If you give a well balanced diet + Viyo Recuperation, it will be 0.37% so a very slight increase. Conclusion: you don’t really provide a lot of sodium which is good so you can safely give it to heart, liver and kidney patients.
How are the percentages to be interpreted on the ingredient analysis table?
The analysis table as used in the technical sheet and medical note shows the values measured on the total product, except for the fatty acids. The fatty acids values are measured on the total of crude fat.
What do prebiotic fibers do? Why are there two in Viyo Recuperation?
Prebiotic fibers optimize the bacterial flora in the gut. Digestion and stool quality will be improved.
Does Viyo Recuperation contain any artificial colorants, preservatives or flavors?
No, Viyo Recuperation doesn’t contain any artificial colorants, preservatives or flavors.
The brown color of Viyo Recuperation doesn’t seem very appetizing. Is this always the case?
Except for slight variations, the color of Viyo Recuperation is always brown because of the ingredients used.
Is Viyo Recuperation a gluten-free product?
Yes, Viyo Recuperation doesn’t contain gluten.
Does Viyo Recuperation contain Vitamin C?
Viyo Recuperation indeed contains Vitamin C. Because it’s not an essential nutrient, it has not been mentioned in the analysis table.
How are the percentages on the ingredient analysis table to be interpreted?
The analysis table as used in the technical sheet and the medical note shows the values measured on the total product, except for the fatty acids. The fatty acids values are measured on the total volume of crude fat.
Is Viyo Recuperation a lactose free product?
Lactose can induce intolerance or allergy mainly in cats. The main symptom is of course diarrhoea. Viyo Recuperation is not a milk based but a water based product. The few dairy products that are used, are all lactose free. So there is no adverse effect due to lactose because milk is not an ingredient of Viyo Recuperation.
Is a negative reaction between vitamins and minerals possible in Viyo Recuperation?
Several nutrients are known to act on the metabolism of other nutrients and also of some non-nutrient substances. The nutritional importance that may be attributed to these interrelationships depends on the levels considered to be physiological for each nutrient, and on their maintenance at acceptable levels in tissues for the defense of the organism. A potential risk of interactions between micronutrients affecting absorption and bioavailability has to be considered in any supplementation. At levels of essential micronutrients present in food (and Viyo Recuperation is not even food), most micronutrients appear to utilize specific absorptive mechanisms and are not vulnerable to interactions. At higher intake levels (overdosing), competition between elements can take place. But Viyo Recuperation is a liquid nutritional supplement that doesn’t contain high quantities of each single nutrient because the product only aims at compensating what they can’t find in their normal daily food or giving an extra in the recuperation phase after surgery or illness. We know that it’s impossible to overdose any single nutrient, the more that it’s liquid and diluted. So interaction between vitamins and minerals (micronutrients) is not an issue with Viyo Recuperation.