I suppose I should start us off with some choices:
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[li]Monkey Chow[/li][li]Dog Food[/li][li]Cat Food[/li][li]Fish Pellets[/li][li]Fish Flakes[/li][/ul]
Monkey Chow for sure. I don’t know that you would necessarily get enough Vitamin C with the others.
While monkey chow might sustain a human, I’m not entirely sure it exists. I don’t think pet monkeys are common enough for their to be a market in prepackaged monkey food.
If there are guinea pig pellets, those should have vitamin C, too.
Otherwise, dog chow approaches it.
Aargh, there. THERE. The interweb is corrupting my brain, I swear.
http://www.primatediets.com/index.asp
Other animals besides monkeys enjoy the great taste and nutrition of monkey chow; squirrels, birds, etc. Rauschenberg also made a collage with the old-style Purina Monkey Chow bag, IIRC.
Ahh. I guess I learned something new today.
I don’t believe the target consumer group for monkey chow is pet monkeys, but zoo residents. The zookeepers need a reliable source for foods to supplement the fresh foods given to the monkeys.
Of the three brands featured on the linked site, only products from Bio-Serv claim to provide a “nutritionally complete” diet. The others need supplements of vitamin C or of greens. But I think it would be routine to give any primate supplements of fruits an vegetables.
Primates are used enough in medical testing that laboratories would be another significant market for monkey-chow.
You may be interested in this other thread, Why don’t they make People Kibble?
To elaborate a little, primates and guinea pigs require vitamin C in their diets. Dogs, cats, and most other animals manufacture it and don’t require it in the diet, so it wouldn’t necessarily be added to commercial feeds.
You could probably survive on dog chow, and perhaps on the other diets, as long as you had a source of vitamin C as well.