The Honest Kitchen
Thank you so much for your questions about The Honest Kitchen!
1)
Many of our foods are green because they contain whole food ingredients like spinach, chard, kelp, parsley. Our animal proteins are dehydrated then milled into a powder, to ensure even distribution. If you write in to us at
questions@thehonestkitchen.com and tell us which recipes you feed, we can tell you the percent of protein as well as the percent of meat in in the composition of the recipe. An example of a lower protein recipe is Keen. Keen offers 21% protien and turkey makes up 23% of the ingredients. Embark is 29% protein and turkey makes up 40% of the ingredients.
2)
When dogs eat a high moisture, whole food diet such as ours, the stool will not look the same as it did when consuming a dry kibble or raw food. The stool will reflect the colorful ingredients going in, different than what we are used to. Since the food is high moisture and high fiber it is also common for the stool to be more voluminous. Our office dogs go 3-4 times a day.
It is not abnormal to see pieces of carrots, spinach, etc present in the stool. The nutrients, phyto-nutrients and antioxidants from the foods are still being absorbed.
There have been studies done to analyze the general digestibility of food for humans; raw, cooked and dehydrated. Raw was approximately 90% digestible, dehydrated food was over 80% digestible, and cooked food was 60%.
Clinical trials on the input/output of a dog or cat eating dehydrated food has not been done, or published in a Scientific journal. The actual digestibility may differ between humans/dogs/cats, but the general principle applies. Less heat=less denaturing=more recognizable by the body=more digestible
We recommend adding meat for high metabolism dogs that fall outside of the bell curve of our feeding guidelines. We'd be happy to talk to you more about this if you'd like. Give us a buzz at 866.437.9729
I hope this helps and please let us know if we can be of further assistance. We are always happy to help!
-Michelle