What Is Actually In Dog Food
Plain explanations of the things you find on a label, from the obvious ones to the ones that sound like chemistry. No opinions about whether an ingredient is good or bad, just what it is and what it does in the bag.
Dried Beet Pulp
The fibrous material left after sugar is extracted from sugar beets, then dried.
Dried Bifidobacterium Animalis Fermentation Product
Dried Bifidobacterium Bifidum Fermentation Product
The dried product of fermenting with Bifidobacterium bifidum, including the culture medium.
Dried Bifidobacterium Longum Fermentation Product
The dried product of fermenting with Bifidobacterium longum, including the culture medium.
Dried Black Soldier Fly Larvae
Dried Blueberries
Dried Blueberry
Blueberries with the moisture removed.
Dried Brewers Yeast
Yeast grown for brewing, then dried and used as a nutritional ingredient.
Dried Brewers Yeast Extract
The soluble portion of brewer's yeast, dried and concentrated.
Dried Broccoli
Broccoli with the moisture removed.
Dried Capsicum
Dried fruit of the capsicum pepper.
Dried Carrot
Carrots with the moisture removed.
Dried Carrots
Carrots with the moisture removed.
Dried Celery
Celery with the moisture removed.
Dried Chicken
Chicken with its moisture removed, leaving a concentrated dry poultry ingredient.
Dried Chicken Bone Broth
Dried Chicken Cartilage
Chicken cartilage with the moisture removed.
Dried Chickpeas
Chickpeas with their moisture removed, the usual form used in dry recipes.
Dried Chicory Pulp
The fibrous material left after inulin is extracted from chicory root, then dried.
Dried Chicory Root
The dried root of the chicory plant, a natural source of inulin.
Dried Coconut
Organically grown coconut flesh with the moisture removed.
Dried Cranberries
Dried Cranberry
Cranberries with the moisture removed.
Dried Dulse Powder
Dried Egg
Whole eggs with the moisture removed, leaving a concentrated dry egg ingredient.
Dried Egg Powder
Whole egg dried and milled to a powder.
Dried Egg Product
Egg content dried and processed into a concentrated, stable ingredient.
Dried Egg Shell
Dried Egg Whites
The white of the egg, dried.
Dried Egg Yolk
Dried Eggs
Whole eggs with the moisture removed, leaving a concentrated dry egg ingredient.
Dried Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product
The dried product of fermenting with Enterococcus faecium, including the culture medium.
Dried Field Peas
Dried Garlic
Garlic with the moisture removed.
Dried Green Peas
Dried Green Tea
Green tea leaf with the moisture removed.
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.
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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.
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