Below are links to home made gel food recipes. The table below contains the percent of grams of food that are protein, carbohydrate, ash (minerals) and fats, along with a breakout of:

• the percent of protein in each recipe that comes from fish/shellfish
• the percent of fats in each recipe that are saturated fats (you want this to be low), the amount of cholesterol (this also should be low), Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids (both essential in the diet)
• the percent of carbohydrates in each recipe that are fiber, sugars or complex carbohydrates

The table also shows the number of calories and micrograms of carotenes (used for fish color pigments) per 10 gram serving of gel food.

Recipe	Protein		Fats and Cholesterol					Ash	Carbohydrate				Caro-tenes (mcg)	Calories per 10 g food
	Total	from fish	Total	Sat-urated (% of fat)	Chol-esterol (mg)	Omega 3 (g)	Omega 6 (g)		Total	Fiber (% of carbs)	Sugars (% of carbs)	Complex (% of carbs)
Sardines, oysters and greens, 5 cups	61%	20%	11%	18%	2.0	0.03	0.04	8%	20%	12%	4%	5%	729	6.4
Mackerel and greens, 4 cups	61%	20%	8%	25%	1.1	0.03	0.01	6%	25%	12%	3%	10%	275	5.9
Mackerel and greens, 5 cups	59%	22%	8%	31%	1.2	0.03	0.01	6%	27%	11%	6%	10%	553	6.5
Sardines and greens, 5 cups	60%	17%	12%	15%	1.7	0.04	0.05	7%	22%	11%	2%	9%	317	7.0
Sardines and greens, 5 cups	60%	17%	13%	13%	1.8	0.06	0.06	7%	21%	11%	4%	5%	499	7.5
Mackerel and greens, 5 cups	63%	18%	10%	22%	1.1	0.06	0.02	6%	22%	12%	5%	5%	424	7.5
mackerel and greens, 5 cups	63%	18%	10%	22%	1.1	0.06	0.02	6%	22%	12%	5%	5%	423.6	7.5
Mackerel and greens, 5 cups	66%	22%	7%	26%	1.3	0.03	0.01	6%	20%	9%	2%	8%	1152	6.8
Sardines and greens, 5 cups	66%	20%	11%	13%	2.4	0.03	0.06	7%	17%	9%	2%	6%	1015	8.5

See also:

• Goldfish Nutrition Part 1: The natural diet and digestive processes - One of the keys to healthy and long lived goldfish is their diet. To understand what constitutes a healthy diet, one has to understand what goldfish have evolved to eat and how they digest their food.
• Goldfish Nutrition Part 2: Food and Nutrition - Information on the nutritional content of foods and recommendations for a healthy diet.
• Goldfish Internal Anatomy - This article shows the GI tract of my fancy goldfish Lumpy.

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