Purified Ingredients

Purified ingredients are highly refined and consist of mainly one main nutrient. Their use in purified diets has contributed to the ability of nutritionists to define nutritional requirements of animals by selectively removing one nutrient at a time from the diet. In addition, their highly refined nature reduces the potential for non-nutrient contaminants to be present, including toxic heavy metals, minimizing potential side-effects and confounding variables that may reduce data interpretation. The combination of nutrient consistency and minimal non-nutrient contaminants in purified ingredients allow for the development of custom purified OpenSource diets as powerful research tools to meet any research goal.