[aimee]

Hi Theresa,

I don’t know that I have a real strong preference for one over the other in regards to potato over lentils but my preference would be for potato. This is likely based on experience with my own dog’s GI problems. And rightly of wrongly I associate lentils with gas. I’d imagine that like anything else there are individual responses which make one work better than another for that particular dog.

Hi Anon
The quote you posted from the Zigniture site was one I asked the company about. Starches are interesting. Potato when fed hot is high glycemic and when eaten cold falls into low glycemic or just outside the low range. Potato variety also plays a role.

Since kibble isn’t fed hot I asked for a reference for that statement. The company wasn’t able to provide one and directed me to the GRI page Then they, in my opinion, dug themselves into an even deeper hole with saying potato feeds yeast and that ” many times when they[owners] see their dog itching, they assume it’s an allergy and its actually candida” There is no basis for such a statement. This was followed with a statement that by eliminating potato and grains from the diet you’ll starve the yeast and their “proteins that assist in cooling the body down to help keep yeast from growing.”

The company is making a lot of statements for which there is no evidence and appear to be pages taken right of the holistic handbook.

I took a look at the GRI. I found it very odd that they give out awards for “best pet resort” and “best pet food store” and the winners are both in Florida a mere 11 miles apart from each other. No mention of how these businesses were chosen. I didn’t find anything about actually feeding the foods they are rating and measuring glucose levels. I did find that you submit an application for them to test your food and then they will tell you how much it costs. There is a yelp review that someone wrote saying they paid $6.000.00 and never received any results anything from them and now can’t get them to respond to his inquires.
Overall I don’t see this company as credible.