Hi again Tyla-
One thing I want to say it’s that I’m not against grain free foods or anything, I just simply don’t hold them on a pedestal the way others do and I also don’t believe that dogs “can’t” digest or have no need for grains because their anatomy and physiology tells us differently.
Each ingredient in dog food is a mere vessel for the more important nutrients. Each nutrient has its own % of digestibility and then all the ingredients together must form a cohesive food that digests well and can be metabolized by the body. The body doesn’t care if it’s nutrients comes from peas, rice, corn or potato so long as it can use the nutrients provided to it.
It sounds like you want to move away from grain free but are nervous like I was because all you hear in media is how bad grains are for dogs. I’ll say, marketing wise grain free really has been successful. But to me the implication that grain free is superior is just that, a clever marketing tactic. There is no science or even logic behind that.
