Sweet Potato - the Superfood for Your Dog
It is delicious, it is orange, it is healthy - the sweet potato. In addition to its unique taste, it contains many nutrients. You might be wondering if your dog can eat sweet potato too? The answer is: Yes! Why it deserves a firm place in a →healthy diet for your dog, you will find out here.
Why is Sweet Potato so Healthy for Dogs?
The American health authority recently declared sweet potato to be the healthiest vegetable. With a baseline of 100, the →regular potato scores 83. The sweet potato achieves an impressive 186 points, shines with a high content of nutrients and is an excellent source of carbohydrates and fiber. Good news for the →chubby ones among us: This superfood comes completely fat-free.
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Rich in Antioxidants for Health
The tuber of the sweet potato provides your dog with a range of important antioxidants and proteins that fight free radicals in the body. Additionally, they significantly increase the activity of the antioxidant glutathione present in the body, which is particularly important for the health of the organism.
Antioxidants also have a supportive effect against cell damage - recent research shows that they can actively fight cancer cells.
Full Power Against Diabetes
If your four-legged friend has →pancreatic diseases, you probably know that dogs can also have problems with blood sugar levels. The substance Caiapo found in the skin of the sweet potato stabilizes and regulates the blood sugar of your dog and has a positive effect on cholesterol levels. Such concentrated power should not be missing from any bowl!
We at Pets Deli also rely on the good nutrients of sweet potato and use them for various food types. Sweet potato can be found, for example, in our tasty dry food varieties →Chicken with Sweet Potato and Garden Herbs or →"Sensitive" Wild with Salmon, Sweet Potato, and Blackberry. Come and take a sniff!
Das schmeckt! Hochwertiges Trockenfutter für deinen Hund
How Do I Properly Feed Sweet Potatoes to My Dog?
Theoretically, your dog could also eat sweet potatoes raw, but for better digestibility, you should feed sweet potatoes to your dog as follows:
1. Cut into small pieces and cooked.
2. The skin of the tuber is harmless and can be eaten.
3. Make sure to let the cooked sweet potato cool down before serving it to your four-legged friend.
Adjusted to the daily ration of nutrients for your dog, there is nothing against your darling eating sweet potato daily.
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Can My Dog Eat Raw Sweet Potato?
Raw sweet potato is harmless for your dog and can be eaten. However, the vegetable is easier to digest when cooked. It can happen that raw sweet potato sits heavily in your dog's stomach and that he cannot digest it well, leading to stomach rumbling.
Certainly, there is nothing wrong with a piece of raw sweet potato, but for regular feeding, it should be cooked beforehand.
Potato is Not Just a Potato
Boiled potatoes, fried potatoes, sweet potatoes - not quite! Contrary to what the name suggests, sweet potatoes have little in common with our regular potatoes. Both grow underground - and that's about it.
Sweet potatoes belong to the morning glory family, which occurs in tropical regions. Their tubers can grow up to 30 cm - while the garden potato barely reaches Chihuahua size, in South America, there are real dachshund super tubers. The two also do not have much in common in taste, as the sweet potato impresses with a fruity-sweet note.
