Yucca schidigera: Latin for odor-reducing petfood ingredient

Periodically one finds an ingredient called Yucca schidigera extract on the label of a petfood—and not just on dog and cat food labels. You might even find it on ferret and rabbit food labels; and for those of you who consider your horse a pet, you may see it in horse feeds.

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Periodically one finds an ingredient called Yucca schidigera extract on the label of a petfood—and not just on dog and cat food labels. You might even find it on ferret and rabbit food labels; and for those of you who consider your horse a pet, you may see it in horse feeds. This ingredient goes only by its Latin Linnaean name, which is sort of odd. Plus, it is not something you would ordinarily find on the grocery store shelf.

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