K9 Feline Natural Lamb Green Tripe Nutritional Supplement (Cat) 57g

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The Nutritional Value of Green Tripe
● Protein – Green tripe has a very high protein content. 70% of these proteins contain 7 kinds of amino acids. Amino acids perform a number of essential functions in a pet’s body, including building muscle and enhancing various overall bodily functions from the immune system to urinary-tract health.
● Probiotics – Raw green tripe contains a large amount of lactic-acid bacteria, a type of beneficial probiotic. The good bacteria in a pet’s body – probiotics – compete with harmful bacteria – E. coli, Listeria and Salmonella – for the nutrients that favour their growth. Probiotics therefore prevent harmful bacteria from taking over the gut and affecting your pet’s health. Lactic-acid bacteria can be found naturally in animals’ intestines, including those of the dog or cat you keep. Adding lactic-acid bacteria to your pet’s food increases the number of good bacteria in a dog’s or cat’s digestive system, improving digestion and achieving optimal nutrient absorption.
● Enzymes – Raw green tripe contains digestive enzymes. Why does this matter? The role of digestive enzymes is to help break whole food down into absorbable nutrients. More available digestive enzymes means your pet can absorb a little more vitamins, minerals and energy from food.
● Natural Vitamins and Minerals – Green tripe also contains semi-digested grass, releasing from the grass nutrients that dogs and cats would otherwise be unable to digest and absorb the way cattle and sheep can. Herbivores such as cattle and sheep have different digestive enzymes in their bodies to digest their main food – such as grass. Your pet, mainly because it is a carnivore, instead has different enzymes that primarily digest meat. Including some semi-digested grass and fibre in pet food can give them a little more nutrition. These natural vitamins and minerals may be difficult for them to absorb elsewhere.
But what about added vitamins and minerals? True, processed foods may also contain vitamins and minerals, and although these may come from natural sources, research still shows that the vitamins contained in the natural foods eaten are somewhat better than added ones.
Calcium
● Calcium and Phosphorus – Green tripe has a near-perfect calcium-to-phosphorus ratio, as well as an optimal ratio of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids, making it a nutritionally balanced food. Green tripe is mildly acidic and easy for your pet to digest – especially for pets with sensitive stomachs.
● Healthy Fats – Green tripe is high in heart-healthy unsaturated fatty acids, with nearly 50% of its fat content being unsaturated. These fats provide high-quality, long-lasting energy and can raise HDL (high-density) cholesterol.

The Benefits of Green Tripe for Dogs
Green tripe can be highly beneficial to your pet’s health, especially if it is “raw”. However, not everyone can obtain fresh raw tripe from an abattoir or fresh-meat stall (and you also have to not mind handling it). High-quality, low-heat-processed cans can provide most of the nutrition of raw green tripe, although the heat-sensitive probiotics and digestive enzymes will be somewhat lost.

**Weight Gain or Recovery After Illness**
Raw green tripe smells terrible – really – but dogs love it. This makes green tripe an easy choice for helping a pet gain weight, whether because it is underweight or recovering after illness. Not only that, the weight gained is also healthy weight, because on top of the weight gain these calories are packed with vitamins, minerals and the various nutrients your pet needs to maintain or restore its bodily functions.
**Weight Loss or Weight Maintenance**
Contains 99% fresh meat (including blood, offal and ground raw bone), paired with 1% New Zealand green mussel, vitamins, minerals and fatty acids. The high-meat-content formula satisfies the most primal dietary and physiological needs with real meat, in a back-to-nature way. This is completely different from the habit in modern society over the past few decades of feeding dogs and cats with cooked and processed convenience feeds.
**Fussy, Picky Dogs**
Green tripe has the natural flavour of protein, and if you can tolerate it, even very fussy dogs will love it. Dogs all like strongly scented food, which is more suitable for older dogs that have lost part of their sense of smell. It can be given as part of a main meal, as a treat, or as a topper sprinkled over dry food.
**Pregnant or Nursing Bitches**
The rich vitamins, minerals, protein and healthy fats in green tripe make it the perfect addition to the main diet of pregnant or nursing bitches. Feeding this premium nutrition during these important periods can ensure the mother and puppies have ample energy without adding unhelpful weight. The added calcium can meet the needs of a bitch during pregnancy or nursing, and its near-perfect calcium-to-phosphorus ratio (which is very important for calcium absorption) is rare even among natural foods.
**Sensitive Stomachs**
Green tripe is very easy to digest. In fact, green tripe is itself already semi-digested, because it contains the contents of a herbivore’s stomach. Freeze-dried, flash-frozen or fresh green tripe is the best choice for absorbing the naturally occurring probiotics and digestive enzymes, although low-heat-processed green tripe cans also retain some residual digestion-aiding properties. If your dog or cat is prone to leaky gut or acid reflux, the easy digestibility of green tripe can reduce these symptoms.
**The Bad Habit of Eating Faeces**
Are you unable to stop your dog’s bad habit of eating faeces? The digestive enzymes in green tripe are said to help dogs that need to absorb digestive enzymes from faeces. Although dogs may eat faeces for various reasons, including anxiety, stress or boredom (to name a few), this solution does indeed address the reason of eating faeces in order to absorb nutrients. Green tripe will also resolve your dog’s habit of eating grass.
**Dental Health**
If you can obtain some large pieces of fresh or freeze-dried green tripe, it has a rubbery texture and makes a long-lasting chew for dogs. It is a tasty, natural chew that is good for the teeth. Canned green tripe is also a healthy natural food, but because it is ground, it does not offer the benefits for dental health.

Natural Nutrition Is Better
– Improves itchy skin and allergy problems, for a thicker and shinier coat
– Improves tear-duct condition, for brighter eyes
– Reduces mouth and body odour, and stool odour
– Reduces excess fat, for a leaner physique and fewer joint problems
– Easy to digest and absorb, reducing stool volume and flatulence
– Made with pure New Zealand water, helping pets absorb more moisture and lowering the risk of urinary tract disease

Ingredients:
Lamb tripe. Water added during processing.

Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude protein (min): 60.0%
Crude fat (min): 18.0%
Crude fibre (max): 2.4%
Moisture (max): 8.0%
Calories: 4165kcal/kg