Given that amylase is an enzyme that is needed for the more
efficient breakdown of carbohydrates then all other types of carbohydrates, not only cereal grains, should not be consumed by our canine friends.
In fact, you could easily make the case that vitamin B1 plays the most critical role
of all, acting as the gate keeper between the less
efficient step
of early
carbohydrate breakdown and the very energy - rich Krebs» cycle and electron transport chain.