My question to Primal was their designation re: Protein Tempeture
Cooling
Neutral
Warming
Hot
Here is their response:
Whether Frozen or Freeze-Dried, the protein’s energetic attribute remains the same. So, for your easy reference, I have listed the food energetics of each protein below.
- Beef - neutral
- Chicken – warming
- Duck – cooling
- Lamb - hot
- Pheasant - warming
- Pork - neutral
- Rabbit - cooling
- Turkey – warming (however, turkey is considered an anti-inflammatory protein, despite being warming)
- Venison - hot
Additionally, because I am not a holistic vet, pet nutritionist, or an official on the concept of food energetics in Eastern medicine, here is a more informative article on the topic, in case you’d like to learn more about it.
The Energetics of Pet Food
Food Energetics Charts
Thus, to summarize, from what I understand, if you have a red, high energy, highly reactive, or allergic pet, they’re most likely a hot warming or hot dog, and would do best on a neutral or cooling diet. By contrast, more lethargic animals that appear to make less energy from their foods are cool dogs, and as such, better accommodated by neutral, warming, or hot foods. The concept of food energetics is more of a soft science which should present helpful indicators in the event that you feel it necessary or beneficial to more closely cater to your pet’s digestive sensitivities (in my experience, I see this information as most helpful if your pet is exhibiting signs of allergy, energy extremes, digestive sensitivity, or other symptoms of ill health or old age). You do not have to abide by these recommendations, and I always encourage the importance of
Rotational Feeding over adhering to energetic attribute-based recommendations.
Please always feel free to reach out again any time and I will be happy to provide further assistance! Best of wishes to you and the fur family in your quest for the best nutrition! Take care, have a great day, and a lovely rest of your week!
Best Wishes,
Angeline King
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Here is another link that I had in my files re: raw diet -
http://feline-nutrition.org/nutrition/easy-raw-feeding-for-the-busy-person
Feline's Pride: A very good, grain and vegetable free complete diet. Antibiotic and preservative free. Available in chicken, turkey, Cornish hen and duck. They will ship direct to you or you can purchase from one of their distributors. My cats love this stuff! Their recipe is very close to the Feline Nutrition homemade recipe.
Nature's Variety: Grain free complete foods for cats and dogs, hormone and antibiotic free. Be aware that their formulations do contain some fruits and vegetables, with a carbohydrate content of about 3%. Available in nuggets, patties, and chubs in chicken, beef, lamb, venison, rabbit and organic chicken. Sold at retail outlets. They also have a line of freeze dried complete foods.
Aunt Jeni's: Complete foods for cats and dogs. They use free-range meats, that are hormone and antibiotic free. Available in chicken, turkey, beef and rabbit. Please note that this product does contain some fruits, vegetables and seeds, and the carbohydrate content is around 3-4%. Available at retail outlets, or they will ship frozen if you are not in an area where it's available.
Primal: Offers formulas that are complete foods in chicken and salmon, beef and salmon, turkey, pheasant, quail and venison. The product comes in nuggets. Their complete formulas do contain some fruits, vegetables and seeds, but carb content is low at 1%. They use human-grade meat that is hormone, antibiotic and steroid free. Available at retail outlets.
Bravo: Offers complete foods in turkey, chicken and beef patties. Poultry is hormone and antibiotic free, and the beef is grass fed. Be aware that they do add some vegetables to their complete foods. Carbohydrate content is about 3%. Available at retail stores. They have a handy "How Much to Feed" Calculator on their site.
Rad Cat Raw Diet: All natural, free-range or pasture raised meats are used, hormone and antibiotic free. No grains or vegetables are used. Available in turkey, chicken or lamb. They also sell chicken neck and turkey gizzard treats. Mostly available on the west coast.