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Originally Posted by ironmike86  This antinutrient property is only for grains that are not properly prepared. Its reduced if you cook or soak. You can research that and see. Quinoa is a complete protien. Rice have very little nutritional value. But I don't know how any of it affects dogs??Honest Kitchen may ormaynot have researched it for there menu?? They maybe the only FDA approved human grade dog food? I would think they had some research into it? |
We are probably talking about different things here and I don't want to derail the thread. I avoid foods with high saponin contents like quinoa. I no longer eat grains and follow a paleo lifestyle so I don't find any of them to be useful. Rice has the least amount of anti-nutrients of all the grains from this perspective.
As for the dogs, I feed my boys chicken and butternut squash. Sometimes I use sweet potatoes. Unfortunately, my female has to eat these anti-nutritious legumes (chick peas) but I sneak her in an egg a couple of times a week to give her some real nutrition. She's a complicated dog to manage thanks to her horrible breeding, so my goal is to keep her alive.
Rice was better tolerated by my dogs than any other grain ever was. Oatmeal once landed my female in the hospital on an IV with severe gastritis and vomiting.