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Posted by Pat B! on December 28, 2008, 12:57 am, in reply to "****** Update - are potatoes better than rice for a dog?? msg"
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Strombeck writes "Potatoes are probably the most common source of starch in human diets. Dogs can eat potatoes, but they do not digest them as completely as cooked rice. If potatoes are not completely cooked, dogs digest them incompletely. That can be a cause for diarrhea in normal dogs."
Here is one of Strombeck's GI diets containing potatoes:
Cottage Cheese and Potato Diet
1/2 cup cottage cheese (1% fat)
3 cups potato - boiled with skin
2 teaspoons vegetable (canola) oil
4 bonemeal tablets (10-grain or equivalent)
1/5 multiple vitamin mineral tablet (made for adult humans)
Provides 577 Kilocalories, 22.8 grams protein, 11.7 grams fat. Supports the caloric needs of a 17-pound dog.
Then he writes "This diet supplies a dog's protein requirements, but it is more expensive than a diet formulated with rice. It contains less cottage cheese and therefore is also less palatable. The potato diets are very deficient in multiple vitamins. It is important to supplement potato diets with vitamins."
A few pages later he writes: "Occasionally a dog will have gastrointestinal problems that these diets do not relieve. In such cases, a purified diet, consisting of purified nutrients, is fed. For example, instead of feeding a starch source such as rice, the diet is formulated with purified starch. Rice contains proteins to which the animal might be allergic. The following recipe contains cornstarch. The purified source of protein can be from milk or soybeans.
Purified Diet for Gastrointestinal
1 cup cottage cheese (1% fat)
7 Tablespoons (150 grams) cornstarch
8 ounces of water
2 teaspoons vegetable (canola) oil
1/3 teaspoon salt substitute (potassium chloride)
5 bonemeal tablets (10-grain or equivalent)
1/5 multiple vitamin mineral tablet (made for adult humans)
Provides 823 Kilocalories, 28.3 grams protein, 12.5 grams fat. Supports the caloric needs of a 27- to 28-pound dog."
Hope this helps!
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