Natural Balance Dog Food – Top Of The Line

Limited Ingredients Diet is just one of the lines of Natural Balance Pet Foods

Natural Balance Dog Food is more commonly known as Dick Van Patten’s Natural Balance. Since its inception in 1989, the vision has not changed. Provide a quality dog food with” no bad stuff in it”. This means no artificial flavors, colorings, or preservatives – all of which have been linked to various health issues in dogs as well as allergy triggers. They also do not add in any fillers. These are ingredients which do nothing nutritionally for your dog but fill them up with calories (relate it to junk food).

Limited Ingredients Dog Food

Natural Balance has several lines of dog food, and although not labeled as a hypoallergenic dog food, they have their own Limited Ingredients Diet, which is essentially the same. With the LID line, there are very few ingredients which help to isolate ingredients that cause allergy symptoms. Like hypoallergenic dog foods, they contain novel meats (like lamb, fish, duck, venison, and bison), and carbs such as rice, sweet potato, and potatoes.

With most commercial dog foods, you will find 15 to 20 ingredients (not including the added vitamins/minerals). This makes isolating which ingredient(s) are causing the problem. With a limited ingredient dog food, you can swap around dog foods and determine which ingredient is causing the problem.

Vegan Dog Food

For the highly allergic dog, even these limited ingredient dog foods might not do the trick. Some dogs just can’t handle the common meat proteins and carbs any more. Therefore, they came up with a completely vegan dog food – no meat or dairy sources. This food contains oatmeal, barley, peas, and potatoes. If you’ve tried limited ingredient dog foods and hypoallergenic dog foods, but your dog is still having food sensitivities, then this just might be what you are looking for.

Organic Dog Food

While we realize how important organic food is for ourselves and our families, it is likewise important for our pets. All these pesticides, herbicides, hormones, and antibiotics used on crops and animals are just as hard for our pets to eliminate from their bodies as it is humans. The overburdened immune system will usually manifest its problems in skin issues, like intense dog itching, and gastro -intestinal problems, like loose stools and irritable bowel syndrome.

Natural Balance organic dog food line contains free-range organic chicken, organic brown rice, oats, barley, potatoes, carrots, and other organic fruits and vegetables. Natural Balance doesn’t try to fool pet owners, they give you exactly what you think you are getting. Even ingredients very low on the ingredient list (meaning weight-wise, there is not much of it) are still organic, like organic spinach and organic cranberries.

Alpha Grain-Free Dog Food

Like most grain-free dog foods, Alpha tries to mimic more of how dogs would eat in the wild. That means more protein and fat and way fewer carbs, none of which come from grains. They still get their carbs, but from ingredients like sweet potatoes, peas, and potatoes.  They also have more fruits and vegetables than non-grain free dog foods, which carry lots of antioxidant benefits among other nutritional elements.

It’s nice to see a company that really believes in what they are producing and offering. There is a reason Natural Balance is considered a premium dog food company with ultra-premium products – because they deliver what they promise!

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