This food may be below - average in fat, but it is pretty high in carbs - after the first ingredient come 5
different carbohydrate sources: brown rice, peas, cracked pearled barley, millet, and oatmeal.
Different carbohydrate sources have varying physiologic effects.
Within each of those, you have
different carbohydrate sources to choose from based on what your dog can tolerate.
The influence of
different carbohydrate sources on blood glucose levels and satiety: Effect of physical activity on blood glucose response.
Not exact matches
Since
carbohydrates are the body's main energy
source, you want to make sure to provide these in
different foods throughout the day.
In particular, they detected E. coli organisms that were being selected due to their improved abilities to use
different carbohydrates as a
source of energy, a property conferred by the
source bacterium B. thetaiotaomicron.
«There are
different forms of protein, just as there are
different forms of
carbohydrate; there are differing
sources (both flesh protein and plant based) but there are also
different densities of protein called purines,» explains Cox.
Carbohydrates serve a lot of
different purposes in the body, but the
source and quality of those carbs matter for your health and fat loss.
So it's really just a carb tolerance test and actually Rob Wolf talks about this in his book as well, where based on some research out of Israel, there was a study done following 800
different people and they found that you could give two people the exact same
carbohydrate source whether it's sweet potato or bread or lentils and they would have very
different postprandial glucose responses.
A
different picture might arise if they had categorized their results based on
source of the
carbohydrate, including whole grains and starchy vegetables.
Make a long list of healthy foods you love so you can easily substitute
different fruits, vegetables, protein, dairy,
carbohydrate and fat
sources.
But not all
sources of
carbohydrates are the same, just as not all fat calories are the same because they are digested, excreted differently and their bioactive and physiological profile is
different.
You may then need to test out some
different diets — one that possibly emphasizes high quality fat
sources like oily fish, olive oil, nuts, avocadoes as primary fuel
sources (version of Paleo) or a diet that emphasizes high quality
carbohydrates like oatmeal, greens and fruits, and whole grains.
Oatmeal is a good
source of dietary fiber, Phosphorus and Selenium, and a very good
source of Manganese, but if you're trying to limit the ingredients in your dog's diet so he won't eat something that might disagree with him, it's odd that this food would have so many
different carbohydrates.
Specialized premium foods complicate the choices even more:
different protein and
carbohydrate sources,
different preservatives,
different formulas for working dogs, and
different formulas for puppies and old dogs can easily frustrate conscientious pet owners.
Depending on nutritional goals, varying levels of dietary fiber with
different properties are necessary to make a highly processed food
source like commercial kibble «work», since a dog's digestive tract is not designed to process a diet with such high levels of
carbohydrates - most dry foods contain 40 - 50 %, poor quality brands even more.
«Pets» GI tracts are not equipped to handle all sorts of
different protein and
carbohydrate sources as ours are,» explains Nelson.
The impact of the dietary
carbohydrate source on food intake, glucose and insulin concentrations, and insulin sensitivity in overweight cats with reduced insulin sensitivity was assessed (57) using two diets formulated to contain similar starch content (33 %) from
different cereal
sources (sorghum and corn vs. rice).
Ingestion of
different sources of
carbohydrate (such as rice) has been shown to increase the demand for insulin in cats and could potentially contribute to β - cell failure in susceptible cats when fed long term.
Wellness foods incorporate a number of
carbohydrates from many
different sources.
It's a little
different compared to the product above as it gets most of its protein from oatmeal, which isn't considered to be the greatest
carbohydrate source in the world.