Bark & Whiskers™ Fermented Superfoods provides a powerful nutrient boost for your pet, delivering health-enhancing antioxidants, polyphenols, vitamins and minerals, like iron, folate, and vitamins A and K2 in a form that supports a carnivore’s natural healthy eating patterns.
Flavored with white cheddar cheese – a pet favorite – this nutritious powdered superfood topper is made with organic whole foods, including broccoli, beets, carrots, kale, seaweed, ginger, barley and wheat grasses, fermented to unlock nutrients and maximize absorption.
Fermentation helps unlock the plant-based nutrients and makes them more digestible so your pet can absorb and utilize more from the whole foods.
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Species-appropriate dog and cat food is predominantly protein. While high-quality meat sources supply amino acids and other valuable nutrients, they don’t contain the important antioxidants and phytonutrients found only in plant foods.
Vegetables are the only source of antioxidants and phytonutrients in your pet’s diet. So, unless you’re regularly feeding vegetables to your cat or dog, your pet is not getting the health-supporting polyphenols and other antioxidants he needs for optimal health.
There are a number of important reasons to include vegetables in your pet’s diet:
1. Cats and dogs need fiber for their digestive health.
Just the same as with humans, fiber doesn’t provide any nutrients or energy to your cat or dog. But it is essential for maintaining a healthy digestive system.
Fiber plays a key role in supporting the healthy bacteria in your pet’s gut. This helps optimize her digestion process. If your pet tends to have sluggish digestion, it will help speed things up. And if she tends to have loose stools, it will help slow things down.
2. Plant foods help balance the alkalinity and acidity of your pet’s food.
Most vegetables have an alkalizing effect on the body. Meat and other proteins make the body more acidic.
Your pet’s organs, including his liver, pancreas, gallbladder, heart and kidneys, function optimally in a more alkaline environment. Certain plant foods can provide an alkalizing effect and help balance the acidity from proteins.
Moderate to strong alkaline-forming foods include grasses, seaweed, broccoli, kale, beets and carrots.
3. Vegetables provide a wide range of vitamins and minerals, including vitamins A and K2, vitamin C co-factors, iron, folate, calcium, potassium and magnesium.
Vitamins and minerals provide foundational support for all the cellular processes in your pet’s body. Vegetables are storehouses of vitamins and minerals, so adding even small amounts to his diet can provide a huge boost to his health and energy.
Root vegetables like carrots and beets grow deep in the soil and absorb minerals from the ground. Seaweed absorbs minerals and micronutrients from the ocean. And all vegetables contain a wide array of vitamins and minerals, such as vitamins A and K2, iron and folate, that can be lacking in processed pet foods.
It’s important to choose Certified Organic vegetables so you don’t feed your pet health-damaging synthetic fertilizers, glyphosate and GMOs.
4. Only plant foods provide phytonutrients and antioxidants.
Meat provides important amino acids, which give your pet the building blocks she needs for making proteins and producing hormones and neurotransmitters. However, to get antioxidants and phytonutrients, your cat or dog needs vegetables.
Antioxidants are your pet’s best friend for maintaining health. They support your pet’s natural detoxification processes, helping to protect her against free radicals that can damage her cells and organs. Phytonutrients are powerful plant-based substances that support all kinds of health processes in your pet’s body. They boost gut and liver health, enhance her immune system response and support a healthy inflammatory response.
Green superfood grasses, like barley grass and wheatgrass, provide your pet with phytonutrients such as chlorophyll, phycocyanin and carotenoids, the plant sterol ester, beta-sitosterol, antioxidants and abundant vitamins and minerals.
Broccoli and kale are two other vegetables that supply valuable phytonutrients and antioxidants, such as naturally occurring sulforaphanes and indole-3 carbinol (I3C).
