HOW EXPOSURE TO AIR AND LIGHT CAN RUIN YOUR PET'S SUPPLEMENTS

While some supplements are stable when exposed to heat, air and light others are notorious for their lack of stability.

It’s oxidation that turns the apple brown after you break the skin or cut it open. It spoils. The same thing happens to some of the supplements you purchase. They’re already in a very vulnerable form with their small surface area, which easily exposes the particles to air.

Omega-3s are notorious for their lack of stability. Because the Omega-3s are fragile and break down so very quickly in the presence of heat, air or light, they’re lacking in both the commercial and fresh foods we feed our dogs. While pet food labels may state that Omega-3 and Omega-6 essential fatty acids have been added, the reality is that the food is deficient due to unavoidable exposure to air, heat and light. 

Here’s the problem. 

The minute the Omega-3s are exposed to air and light in the manufacturing and packaging process, they oxidize and degrade. Omega-3s on the processing floor can lose 50 percent of their viability due to exposure during processing. 

It gets even better!  Fish Oils are washed in bleach and acetone before they are processed into supposed Omega-3 containing products. What do you think this procedure does to these delegate products?

Companies measure their ingredient level with a Certificate of Analysis before the processing begins. The supplement goes into gel caps, most of which are permeable to air, placed in plastic containers with air filling in the open space; or into pump bottles, which add air back into the bottle with every pump.

Then, when the product sits on the shelf in the store or your cupboard and, at the end of the day, you wind up with negligible amounts of the product you so carefully purchased. We purchase Omega-3s precisely because they’re so fragile and get destroyed in a wink in our foodstuffs, but the product we get degrades just as quickly if not more so. We haven’t even added into the equation that both heat and light also contribute to their rapid degradation. The bottom line is that what is stated on the label surely does not reflect the reduced value of the product.

WHAT'S THE SOLUTION?

CHIA SEEDS !

2 TABLESPOONS OF CHIA SEEDS CONTAIN:

• 64% more potassium than a banana
• 2x the antioxidants of blueberries
• 100% more omega-3 than salmon
• 32% of daily magnesium
• 5x more calcium than milk
• 3x more iron than spinach
• 41% of daily fiber intake needed
• 20% protein

Chia Seed Pudding is easy and inexpensive to make

1/2 cup Chia Seeds
2 1/2 cups of a liquid [goat kefir, chicken broth, beef broth, bone broth - basically whatever they like and it is your choice]

Mix it all together. Cover. Put in fridge for the night.

Serve a heaping teaspoon a day for small dogs and one or more heaping tablespoons a day for larger dogs. You CAN'T overdo it. It's a food.

The liquid protects the Omega-3s from being exposed to air and oxygen. It is kept cold in the fridge so no heat exposure or light exposure. The pudding protects the Omega-3s!

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Factoid: Brussel Sprouts and Avocados supply healthy amounts of Omega-3's

Flax Seed Oil- if not highly processed contain almost twice as much of the 

Mega-3s as fish oil

MAKE A BATCH FOR YOURSELF WITH SOME YUMMIE FRUITS AND/OR ADD HEALTHY FRUITS TO YOUR PET'S CHIA SEED PUDDING!