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Originally Posted by mimimomo  Wow that's awesome! I asked Farmina (via FB) if they'll consider a kibble w/out potatoes (lolll) & use sweet potato instead. They informed me that the head of clinical nutrition said no sweet potatoes bc it causes oxalate stones in some dogs & it also makes food intolerance much worse due to the high levels of plant estrogen. Very interesting, bc Turbo is my food sensitive guy. |
Besides these points, sweet potatoes have 3 - 4 times the sucrose (table sugar) of regular potato.
It has been shown in people that yeast infections are more common and more severe when estrogen levels are high.
I will skip the sweet potato for dogs and cats.