What does grain-free mean (and what replaces it)?
Grain-free feeds eliminate wheat, corn, barley, oats, rye and rice. The most commonly used alternatives are peas, lentils, chickpeas, potato, sweet potato and tapioca.
The FDA and DCM controversy: what did the research really say?
In 2018, the FDA issued an alert on a possible association between legume-rich diets and dilated cardiomyopathy. After five years of investigation, the FDA closed the active case without establishing a causal relationship.
Dogs DO digest cereals well
During the approximately 15,000 years of coevolution with humans, dogs acquired multiple copies of the AMY2B gene needed to digest starch. The digestibility of well-cooked starch in dogs exceeds 95%.
When does grain-free feed make real clinical sense?
There are situations in which choosing grain-free is justified:
- Documented allergy to a specific cereal.
- Digestive intolerance to specific cereals.
- Informed preference with high quality feed.
What really matters: quality, not the absence of grains
A poor quality grain-free feed may be nutritionally inferior to a quality conventional feed. The selection criterion should be the animal protein identified as the first ingredient.
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