Cooked Meat?

[bloss344]

Cooking takes away nutrients of all food (as does storing, refrigeration and freezing).

Cooking doesn't so much take away the nutrients but it does change the food somewhat. Minerals are pretty much stable even with cooking. Vitamin B's and C are heat sensitive and so will be reduced. Some dogs do better on cooked foods for some reason or another. Someone with a dog with a compromised immune system may not want to feed raw due to the potential bacteria on it. My Bob doesn't tolerate fat, so I cook his meat, drain the liquid and fat away. Some people just prefer to feed cooked.

Dogs don't have any problem eating and surviving on cooked meat; they've been doing it for generations.

[blacklabrador]

Millie won't eat raw. She's too fussy. I cook up chicken mince from the supermarket or butcher, altho recently to cut costs i bought the pets chicken mince from the butcher which is basically the chicken carcass put through the mincer. I cooked it up and it was full of small sharp splintering bones. I'll never buy pet mince again. Only human grade meat for my spoilt pooch

Yep pet mince is generallya meat/bone mix and should never be cooked. The contents of it do vary from butcher to butcher but it's usually at least based on chicken carcasses.

[blacklabrador]

Cooking takes away nutrients of all food (as does storing, refrigeration and freezing).

Cooking doesn't so much take away the nutrients but it does change the food somewhat. Minerals are pretty much stable even with cooking.

I've seen studies that report that 1/4 - 1/3 of vitamins, both water and fat soluable are lost from a particular kind of meat during cooking.

[bloss344]

I've seen studies that report that 1/4 - 1/3 of vitamins, both water and fat soluable are lost from a particular kind of meat during cooking.

Yes, I don't dispute that there is a loss of nutrients but there is still nutrition there for the dog to benefit from if the owners feel they need to cook the meat.

[blacklabrador]

[ there is still nutrition there for the dog to benefit from

Of course there is. We all eat meat (cooked) because it's good for us. But the longer it's cooked the more nutrients it loses.

[espinay2]

Taurine is one thing in the meat that is destroyed by the cooking process. Recently this has been uncovered as a possible issue for dogs and most commercial dog foods are now having to add it into the food (they found out a lot earlier of the importance of taurine for cats when cats fed on cooked/commercial foods started dying as a result of not getting it). Other essentail amino acids and enzymes are also destroyed by the cooking process.

If you wish to feed a cooked diet as opposed to raw, that is your decision (personally I believe raw is a lot more appropriate and healthier but everyone has to come to their own conclusion after doing the research for themselves). There are some good articles for both approaches on this website: B-Naturals Newsletter Directory