Barley flakes (hulled) Barley (Hordeum vulgare) is one of the oldest cultivated cereal grains, with archaeological evidence placing its use in human and animal diets for over 10,000 years. Hulled barley retains its bran and germ, distinguishing it nutritionally from [...]

Stop treating your dog like a trashcan Dogs have been sharing our lives – and our food – for centuries. Up to the 1960s, it was common practice to feed them our table scraps and leftovers. Commercial dog food had [...]

Copper: what's not on the label? Copper is an essential nutrient. Dogs need it for iron metabolism, connective tissue formation, pigmentation, antioxidant defence and several other biological functions. But for all its benefits, more is not necessarily better. When copper [...]

Inside the extruder: making kibble By the time dry dog food is packaged, the transformation of living tissue and whole plants into a commercial commodity is complete. The original ingredients are milled, hydrated, thermally processed, mechanically altered, expanded, dehydrated and [...]

Powdered beef or buffalo lung This might be the simplest, quickest hack you can imagine, but it's still sooooo useful. Dried beef lung is a popular, single-ingredient treat made entirely from dehydrated cattle or buffalo lung. It is naturally low [...]

A varied diet for the modern dog Someone asked an interesting question recently: is it true that dogs should be fed the exact same diet all the time because ... well, consistency? But this oft-quoted advice, something of an old [...]

Rewards In humans, it is argued that visual hunger – the desire to look at food – could have evolved because seeing food was generally a precursor to consuming food[1]. Long before the ascendance of culinary exhibitionism and food porn, [...]