Everyone loves Fruits and Vegetables…even dogs
While holistic dog practitioners debate the merits of feeding our canine companions fruits and vegetables, the pet food industry has taken matters into their own backyard and started a huge campaign to incorporate them into premium dog foods that are available at a wide range of prices with a tremendous menu of variety.
Several pet food manufacturers are now using real fruits and vegetables instead of the synthetic vitamin packs that are commonly used to meet the dietary requirements set by the Association of American Food control Officials, otherwise known as AAFCO.
And many experts contend that vitamins and minerals from whole fruits and vegetables offer long term benefits over the synthetic varieties, the United States Cancer Institute recommended that people get their vitamins from food and not man made supplements. The same is applicable to our pooch pals.
There has been strong evidence that fruits and vegetables could be beneficial to dogs and may best be classified as functional ingredients since they seem to offer a benefit above that of the base nutrition.
Fruits and veggies are key ingredients in several manufacturers’ foods and costs are able to be kept reasonable by using high quality, low cost vegetables rather than expensive or exotic fruits and vegetables.
