Complete & Balanced Dog Food – What It Means If a dog food is labeled “complete and balanced”, it means that it provides your pet the right amounts (in the right proportions) of every single nutrient that your dog's body needs: every day, every meal.
What is a complete dog food?
COMPLETE DOG FOODS These dog foods are nutritionally complete, providing all the nutrients in the amounts and proportions your dog needs. Only complete dog foods are suitable for daily feeding without adding further food products.
What is complete and balanced dog food?
“Complete and Balanced” means: the food contains all the vitamins and minerals needed to prevent most diseases caused by nutritional deficiencies. This means it can be fed as the dog's entire diet.
What does complete mean in raw dog food?
In theory, this means you can rest assured that any food you find labelled as 'complete' has everything your dog needs to stay fit and healthy.
What is the difference between complete and complementary dog food?
Unlike complete foods, complementary foods do not contain everything a pet needs and so have to be combined with other foods in order to form a balanced diet. The complementary food category is enormously varied, from the traditional mixer biscuits and wet food 'toppers' to raw meat minces and fruit/veg mixes.
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