Juno loves raw carrot, green beans and peas. She also enjoys them cooked with some cauliflower or broccoli. Frozen peas and beans are also fun to eat For fruit she loves apple, banana, pear, peach, nectarine, cherries, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries and is happy to help herself from bushes
ours love raw carrot, broccoli, cauliflower & peppers. They get them when I'm pr paring veg. Sometimes I give them a whole carrot each. Coco will work for small raw carrot discs, I like this as they are very low calorie.
No. Check their poop and you'll find the indigestible veggies. Of course, cooking them first only removes the nutrients. They'll eat it but then again labs will eat anything you give them, beneficial or not.
Cooking doesn't remove all the nutrients, because otherwise there would be no benefit in us eating cooked vegetables!
Exactly , lightly steaming is the best way , but cooking does not remove all the nutrients at all . If the veg isn't lightly cooked , it is not digested which is fine if given as a chew .
Or you can mush them up with a blender, uncooked, and retain most of the raw nutrients. Or a food processor or a juicer. The faster the speed at which you mush the more nutrients you lose to oxidation.
Juno had both raw and cooked carrots last night with a side order of broccoli, and not a trace in her poop today. Dogs are omnivores and can digest many foods, some better than others.
Hmm....must say I haven't noticed undigested veg in Lilly's poop. Just the grass And the very occasional plastic item, though that hasn't happened for a good while *cross fingers*. Last thing I think was one of those plastic puppy chew bones.
I never find undigested veg in poo. My first Labrador ate many, many things raw - sweet potato, pumpkin, broccoli stems...big pieces. Never ever found a trace in his poo. Cooking reduces some nutrients, sometimes just because some nutrients dissolve out into the cooking water (so light cooking is recommended, in minimal water...or turning the veg with the cooking water into a soup) but cooking makes other nutrients much more available for digestion. It's not true that it will wholesale deplete the nutritional content of food.
