Learn about Grain-Free Dog Food

In recent years, the hot trend in pet foods has been grain-free dog and cat food. Grain-free pet foods can have many health benefits for our pets. We’ll focus on grain-free dog foods and discuss why feeding a food that contains no grains may be a healthy choice for your pet. Low-Carb Most grain-free pet foods will naturally be lower in carbohydrates than a food containing corn, wheat, oats or rice. This doesn’t mean that grain-free foods are carbohydrate free. All dry pet food requires that the ingredients include some form of starch so that the kibble can be hard and crunchy. Grain-free pet foods replace the grain-based starch with other types of starch like potato, sweet potato, tapioca, or green peas. Grain-free dry foods do contain lower levels of carbohydrates which more closely resembles the natural diet of a carnivorous animal. Dogs are descendants of wolves and a wolf would only encounter grain in the stomach contents of prey animals they consumed. What’s wrong with grain? Some dogs develop allergies to the ingredients in pet food. Corn, wheat and rice are frequently found to be the cause of the allergic reaction. Some say that it’s not the grain that’s the problem but more so the pesticides that were used on the grain while it was growing that causes the sensitivity. Feeding a grain-free diet may help if your dog has chronic skin or digestive problems. Can puppies eat grain free food? This depends on the brand of grain free dog food you select. Some brands only …

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