Why do most Bento Kronen Nutritional Balance products also contain wheat as a cereal?
Wheat is a high-grade, particularly nutritious cereal which offers a host of propitious properties. The high content of gluten in cereals is typical. Amongst other things, these elastic proteins see to it that the dough is made to leaven whilst baking bread. In the production of dog foods too, gluten have a series of highly beneficial properties. Extruding cereals containing gluten produces nicer, stronger chunks that have a smoother surface. Laboratory research taking in texture analysis has shown that these chunks do not break as quickly, allowing the dog’s teeth to penetrate deeper into the chunk before the chunk bursts. This prompts improved mechanical dental cleaning which means the animals develop tartar far less quickly. These properties have seen to it that all Bento Kronen Nutritional Balance dog foods have been given the Dental Health icon. Wheat gluten also have a high glutamine content, an amino acid which supports good intestinal health. In rare cases dogs may prove allerg
