Category: Nutrition
Protein, fat, fiber and starch. What the guaranteed analysis is measuring and why it matters to your dog.
How Many Calories Does My Dog Need?
How to read the calorie statement on dog food, work out your dog's daily calories with the vet formula, and turn it...
Fiber in Dog Food: What the Label Leaves Out
Why the crude fiber figure on a dog food label understates the real fiber, what beet pulp, chicory, psyllium and cellulose each...
Carbohydrates in Dog Food: The Number Missing From the Label
Dog food labels do not list carbohydrates. How to estimate them in ten seconds, what the estimate can claim, and why grain-free...
Omega-3 and Omega-6 in Dog Food
Which omega-3 actually helps dogs, why flax is not fish oil, how to read the omega lines on a dog food label,...
Fat in Dog Food: What the Percentage Tells You
What the fat figure on a dog food label means, how to compare it between foods, which fat sources to look for,...
The Best Vegetables for Dogs
Vegetables do one job in your kitchen and a completely different one on an ingredient panel. Confusing the two is how people...
The Best Protein Sources in Dog Food
Protein is what people judge a dog food on and what the label communicates worst. How to read it properly, and which...
Think You Know What Your Dog Can Eat?
Ten everyday foods. Safe, In Moderation or Never. No googling, no second guesses. Then share your score with your friends, however embarrassing it turns out to be.
115 foods in the deck. Grapes are in there. So is cheese.
Think You
Know?
Ten foods, one at a time. Call each one Safe, In Moderation or Never, then flip the card to see if you had it right. The ones you miss are listed at the end.
Keys: 1 Safe 2 Moderation 3 Never Enter Next
Copied. Paste it anywhere your friends will see it.
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Now, is your dog's food any good?
Look it up: estimated starch, calories per cup and every ingredient, for 3,207 foods.