Holistic dog Foods: Best Diet for your Pet

We are very aware of the importance of proper balanced and complete nutritious diet. Most of us want to provide such healthy foods to our dog to make them more energetic and healthy but it is often seen that we are always come out with lake of proper knowledge about their diet and health. We can get easily a wide range of dog food products in our market. They are come up with eye catching colourful pictures and very attractive quotations which make us confused which one should we choose or whether it will be the best or not. But all the products that are sold in market are not reliable. Some of the manufacturers use very low quality ingredients to make their dog food products inexpensive. They use harmful additives and chemicals with some artificial colours which are very toxic for your dog’s health. So it is a wise advice for dog owners don’t go for such harmful products. We can suggest you holistic and natural diet foods for your beloved pet which are proved as best diet for them. Holistic foods are prepared with natural ingredients and it contains sufficient amount of protein, vitamin and mineral.

A few years back the different manufacturers of dog food products do some quality research about the proper dog food and the way we should feed them. Ultimately, in reaction to customer demand, the Association of American Feed Control Officials in short AAFCO was established. The main function of AAFCO is to provide feed regulations and dog food ingredient definition to the manufacturer. After completing the dog food product they also tasted it scientifically. When the particular food product has completed all the tests AAFCO has labelled it as complete and balanced diet.  The list of the nutrition is divided into two dissimilar profiles. One of the profiles is for pregnant, growing and lactating dogs whether the other is for maintenance of adults.
 
AAFCO dog food nutrient for adult puppies profile is listed below:

18 percent of Protein
0.6 percent of calcium
0.9 percent of Chloride
5 percent of fat
0.5 percent of Phosphorus
5000 IU/Kg of Vitamin A
500 IU/Kg of Vitamin D
1.5 mg/kg of Iodine
120 mg/Kg of Zink
50 IU/kg of Vitamin E
7.3 mg/Kg of Copper
0.18mg/kg of Folic acid
0.022 mg/kg of Vitamin B12
1 mg/Kg of Pyridoxine
11.4 mg/kg of Niacin
2.2 mg/kg of riboflavin
0.6 percent of Potassium

For growing and pregnant puppies the food nutrition profile is:

22 percentage of Protein
1 percent of calcium
0.3 percent of Sodium
8 percent of fat
0.45 percent of chloride