Choosing Grains in Your Dog’s Food
February 1, 2011 by Paris Permenter and John Bigley
Filed under Health, Tips
Last week, canine nutrition expert Tracie Hotchner examined meat meal as a protein source in dog food in this continuing series about reading dog food labels. This week, Tracie looks at grains in your dog’s food:
Whole, unprocessed grains are excellent – Do not let yourself be confused or fooled by dog foods that advertise as being “grain free” and therefore supposedly healthier. While there is an understandable push-back about the heavy presence of corn in bagged foods (more on that in “Ingredients to Avoid”) there are many grains that are terrific carbohydrate sources as long as they are not the broken down leftover components of those ingredients from the human food production process. You want to choose foods that utilize whole grains like rice or brown rice (as opposed to “brewer’s rice), or whole ground barley or oatmeal – not flour made of these ingredients or fragments of these carbohydrate sources.
Next week: Looking for vegetables in your dog’s food
This Canine Nutrition Tip is from Tracie Hotchner, author of The Dog Bible and award-winning host of Dog Talk® on NPR station WLIU. Canine Nutrition Tips are sponsored by Proportions, the whole food custom nutrition program for your dog. Visit www.Proportions.com to get a custom 2-meal trial for your dog, or to learn more about canine nutrition from the full Canine Nutrition University classes written by Tracie.
Author photo courtesy www.traciehotchner.com; photo © Ling Li
About Paris Permenter and John Bigley
DogTipper publishers Paris Permenter and John Bigley are a husband-wife team of full-time writers. The couple has authored over two dozen books and 2,500+ magazine articles.
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