Did you know that dry pet foods, even natural, holistic, grain-free or organic brands, contain vitamin and mineral “pre-mixes” made from synthetic compounds that are almost all produced in overseas factories? This is how their labels meet the nutritional requirements of dogs and cats after ingredient and food processing.
Until now, the only way to avoid possible contamination from additives was to cook at home for your pet. Now you can avoid these risks with Carna4.
More Benefits & Less Risks for Your Pet
Some substances, such as probiotics or the “good bacteria” needed for healthy digestion are more effective when they come from natural food, like Carna4’s sprouted flaxseed, because they tend to outlive their manmade counterparts. What happens is naturally-occurring probiotics stay in the nurturing comfort of their native host (the sprouted seeds) throughout baking. However, manmade probiotics are raised in a synthetic “farm,” then injected into the food and the instability of a foreign environment, where few survive
for the long-term.
Similarly, it’s known that up to 90% of synthetic vitamins are destroyed in the extrusion/drying processes used in conventional pet food manufacturing. After extrusion, these synthetic vitamins continue to be lost at rates of up to 30% per month for Vitamin A. Antioxidants like Vitamins E and C can be used up at similarly high rates, especially when they are needed to neutralize free radicals from poor quality meats. On the other hand, the natural vitamins in sprouted seeds remain healthy and abundant in their host environment, staying at optimum levels for many months after they are baked into Carna4. For example, when flaxseed is sprouted, vitamins, especially Vitamin C and E, have been found to increase by more than 900%.
Some manmade additives used in pet foods may contain low levels of toxins or other dangerous impurities. These substances may be safe when taken individually and in moderate dosages, but health risks increase when many concentrated additives are mixed with pet food ingredients during manufacturing. In recent years, we’ve seen numerous recalls caused by synthetic vitamin/mineral mixing errors during pet food fortification.
Although AAFCO allows manufacturers to add synthetic supplements to pet food, it has previously admitted to gaps in its “knowledge of nutrient requirements and toxicities (of synthetic mineral supplements).”
For example:
- Many Mineral Feed Additives Contain Heavy Metal Contaminants, such as arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium and nickel because they are often made from industrial by-products.
- Many Synthetic Fat-Soluble Vitamins Contain BHT, an additive noted for its potential to cause cancer.
- Most Foods Add Preservatives, such as BHA, BHT, Ethoxyquin, TBHQ, Sodium Metabisulphite or even Mixed Tocopherols (which may contain synthesized Vitamin E).
Synthetic Vitamins Made Primarily Overseas
Many people don’t realize that most of the vitamins used in today’s synthetic additives are made overseas in China and India (where most European vitamin companies have outsourced their plants). Only choline chloride and natural source vitamin E (from soy oil) are still made in North America.
In fact, a leading manufacturer of “made in U.S.A.” vitamin pre-mixes for the pet food sector, relies on China for the following vitamins contained in its pre-mixes: magnesium oxide; ascorbic acid; Vitamin A; Vitamin D; thiamine mononitrate; pyridoxine HCl; and folic acid.
Given these known limits and risks, wouldn’t you like to remove synthetic additives from your pet’s diet? Carna4 gives you a convenient option to make your pet’s world safer and help them live a healthier life. What could be better than that?
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