Why are juiced vegetables better for dogs?
Vegetables contain a number of essential fatty acids, micronutrients, vitamins, and minerals that can benefit your dog. However, dogs do cannot digest fruits and vegetables because they lack the enzyme necessary to break down cellulose. In nature, dogs will typically eat the stomach content of their herbivorous prey, which contains foods that have already been partially digested. In order to achieve a similar effect in the raw diet, we juice all the vegetables and fruits we add to our raw meals, which makes the nutrients more accessible for the canine digestive system. To learn more about the canine digestive system and nutrient absorption, click here 3. Doesn’t juicing destroy some of the nutrients in the vegetables? Yes and no. Most home juicers are centrifugal juicers – that means they use a high-speed disk and filter to grind the vegetables and separate the juice. This type of juicing process generates a significant amount of heat, which accelerates the oxydation process, destroyin