![]() ![]() If you choose a mixer, you'll need to add other carefully chosen foods to your dog's diet (whether raw, home-cooked, or commercial) to make it balanced. Mixer: A mixer is a dog food that contains some but not all of the nutrients required to keep your dog healthy. Look for the words "complete and balanced" somewhere on the packaging. If you want to switch your dog to a diet of 100% freeze-dried food, you'll need to feed one that is marketed as complete. It's important to learn the difference between a complete food, a mixer, and a booster in order to select the right food for your canine companion.Ĭomplete: A complete food is one that's designed to meet all your dog's nutritional needs. Frequent recalls should make you question the quality of the brand. Freeze dried foods can be a good gateway product if you are thinking of feeding a raw diet.It's worth checking the FDA website to see if the dog food brand you choose has had any recalls over the years. The foods are nutritionally balanced, easy to handle and store, plus they keep a long time. Your dog gets the same nutritional benefits of eating raw without the mess. Some of the companies which make freeze dried diets include:Īgain, when you are selecting a freeze dried product for your dog, make sure that you choose a food that is complete and balanced for your dog’s life stage and not a product that is intended to be used as a supplement - unless you wish to add other foods to your dog’s diet and try to balance it yourself.įreeze dried foods are often a good alternative for people who like to feed a raw diet. In general, the formulas for freeze dried foods are very similar or identical to the formulas for the raw food diets. The same companies that make raw food diets sometimes make freeze dried foods if they have the equipment to do so, but it takes special equipment to freeze dry food. That’s the kind of thing you would need to look for on the label when you compare freeze dried (and raw) foods. The higher fiber is also not unusual here because the company states that 6 percent of the food is made up of ground bone and the fiber is probably necessary for better digestion. It’s not unusual to find higher amounts of protein and fat in raw and freeze dried foods. So, on a dry matter basis, the food has about 43 percent protein, 36 percent fat, and 7 percent fiber.
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