Diet food for dogs
– which usually also means: no more treats! They are usually high in calories and contain fat or sugar. But that doesn’t have to be the case, because there are treats that only contain healthy ingredients and they fulfill important functions. You can find out more about it here and if your vet doesn’t know anything about it yet, why not bring him some cheese treats?
Which diet food can also make the dog ill?
The latest scientific findings – humans and dogs should avoid sugar as much as possible. The sugar lobby does everything it can to sell its sugar – and as we have seen, it is also used in dog food that is labeled as diet food. But do yourself and your dog a favor and do without it.
Important to know:
- Protein is important for building and maintaining the body’s substance and is not primarily used for energy production.
- If the dog does not get enough energy from fat and carbohydrates, it is drawn from the protein and the body lacks it for building up. That is why balance is very
Low-protein food is recommended for dogs with kidney disease. However, to avoid protein deficiency, you need to feed high-quality protein. Not only different types of meat
(no internal protein), but also other sources of protein such as quark, cottage cheese and egg. It contains all the essential amino acids that the body cannot produce itself. This has not yet been sufficiently taken into account in the composition of the feed.
Therefore a little sour milk products once a day. These do not contain lactose.
What must not be in diet food for dogs?
Sugar
not only makes you fat, it also weakens the immune system. This not only results in flatulence, but also destroys the intestinal flora. The further consequences are known.
Salt is sodium chloride. Diet food also contains salt, which is mixed with chemical substances that are actually toxic and have allergenic potential. But the more sodium the body absorbs, the more potassium it excretes. And potassium deficiency causes renal insufficiency. Therefore, salt should not be included in the dog’s diet.
Corn – it contains carbohydrates that are immediately converted into sugar. Allergy potential and pesticide exposure are quite high.
Additives – especially synthetic preservatives, attractants and E-numbers – have a high allergenic potential.
What must be included?
- High-quality protein – especially quark, yogurt, cheese,
- healthy carbohydrates – potatoes vegetables, buckwheat (no cereals), rice (no gluten)
- Unsaturated fatty acids from vegetable oils
- Vitamins, minerals, trace elements of natural origin
Why are cheese treats allowed as diet food for dogs?
- only healthy ingredients
You can do it without counting calories. QCHEFS cheese treats have only 5 kcal and consist only of healthy ingredients – cottage cheese, buckwheat (no cereals), rapeseed oil, coconut oil and vegetable glycerine for the chewing gum effect.
The high-quality protein in cottage cheese is an important substitute and supplement for protein from meat. Buckwheat provides healthy carbohydrates for the diet and all vitamins – B complex in high concentration – minerals and trace elements. Everything you need to be healthy.
- Cheese treats brush teeth-
Chewing and salivating is not only important for stress relief, but the cheese neutralizes the bacteria and the teeth become clean and smooth. This also provides effective and appropriate dental care.
By the way: dogs love cheese and cheese bones even more! It is a special reward because the cheese provides the raw material for serotonin. And as we all know, that also makes dogs happy!
Find out more and try it out at: www.qchefsdental.de