{"id":9156,"date":"2023-05-11T18:17:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T22:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/?p=9156"},"modified":"2025-04-24T18:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:46:22","slug":"fresh-pet-food-nutrition-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/fresh-pet-food-nutrition-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Pet Food and Nutrition Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p>A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that a diet of minimally processed, fresh, and highly digestible food does more to promote dogs&rsquo; health than a diet made up of dry kibble or canned food.&nbsp;<\/p><h4>Processing, nutrition, and health<\/h4><p>Peer-reviewed research has shown that fresh, lightly cooked food has greater nutrient digestibility compared to extruded diets (i.e., kibble). The Farmer&rsquo;s Dog food has been clinically proven to be highly digestible.&nbsp;<\/p><p><em><span >Do et al. <\/span><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jas\/article-abstract\/99\/2\/skab028\/6123189?redirectedFrom=fulltext\"><em><span >Nutrient digestibility and fecal characteristics, microbiota, and metabolites in dogs fed human-grade foods<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span >. Journal of Animal Science, Vol. 99, No. 2, 1&ndash;13 2021<\/span><\/em><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>The Farmer&rsquo;s Dog recipes include lightly cooked vegetables like Brussels sprouts, broccoli, carrots, and green beans. Vegetables can provide your dog with an array of key vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients&mdash;including antioxidants that help promote a healthy immune system.<\/p><p><em><span >Malathi Raghavan, Deborah W Knapp, Patty L Bonney, Marcia H Dawson, Lawrence T Glickman. <\/span><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/16013542\/\"><em><span >Evaluation of the effect of dietary vegetable consumption on reducing risk of transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder in Scottish Terriers<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span >. AVMA Journals, July 2005<\/span><\/em><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>Research has shown that a 25% reduction in commercial pet food intake increased dogs&rsquo; median lifespan and delayed chronic disease.<\/p><p><em><span >Richard D. Kealy, PhD, et al. <\/span><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/avmajournals.avma.org\/view\/journals\/javma\/220\/9\/javma.2002.220.1315.xml?tab_body=pdf\"><em><span >Effects of diet restriction on life span and age-related changes in dogs<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span >. AVMA Journals, Volume 220: Issue 9, 01 May 2002<\/span><\/em><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>Keeping dogs at an ideal weight has been shown to increase their lifespan by an average of 2.5 years.<\/p><p><em><span >Carina Salt, Penelope J. Morris, Derek Wilson, Elizabeth M. Lund, Alexander J. German. <\/span><\/em><em><span >Association between life span and body condition in neutered client-owned dogs<\/span><\/em><em><span > Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 11 December 2018&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>Pre-portioned food makes it straightforward to manage your dog&rsquo;s weight and help them stay lean and healthy for longer.<\/p><p><em><span >Coe et al. <\/span><\/em><em><span >Dog owner&rsquo;s accuracy measuring different volumes of dry dog food using three different measuring devices.<\/span><\/em><em><span > Vet Record, 16 November, 2019&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that a diet of minimally processed, fresh, and highly digestible food does more to promote dogs&rsquo; health than a diet made up of dry kibble or canned food.&nbsp;Processing, nutrition, and healthPeer-reviewed research has shown that fresh, lightly cooked food has greater nutrient digestibility compared to extruded diets (i.e., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9156"}],"version-history":[{"count":102,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41905,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156\/revisions\/41905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}