Healthy Food For Dogs – Our Singular Focus
For years we have been researching dog food. Who are the companies that make it? Why are they in the business? What is in the food they make? Why? What’s good about what they do? What’s bad… and how can it be better?
If you seek the answers to these questions with no predetermined agenda and leave yourself open to the use of any ingredients for the food, any preparation method and the construction of any facility, the picture becomes clear.
To learn more about us, what we do, and how we do it, please click on the text below. We also welcome you to contact us at your convenience to arrange a consultation – or simply stop into the kitchen any time.
Total Commitment
The first thing we learned was that in order to remain faithful to our name we had to make the food ourselves and we had to build our own kitchen. From scratch. No converted restaurant or catering facility would function properly. A ‘dog kitchen’ is different, the layout and the cook line is nothing like a restaurant, catering operation or home kitchen and efficiency is critical to the quality of the end product. To that end we built our own commercial, human grade kitchen in Newport Beach and opened our doors in January of 2011.
Bioavailability is Paramount
We are entirely nutrition driven and while the average pet parent would have no reason to study the details of what we do, it is our hope that veterinarians will work in conjunction with us to meet the needs of healthy dogs as well as those requiring a special diet. The lack of regulation imposed on ‘feed grade’ ingredients make it impossible to authenticate the actual contents of commercial dog food. For this reason we use only USDA/FDA ingredients certified for human consumption. We then cook the food to minimal levels in order to maximize the nutritional value. Lastly, we instantly
freeze our food in easy to handle packaging. Our recipes are formulated based on National Research Council (NRC) recommendations to ensure all essential nutrients are present in optimum volume and are suitable to be fed as a stand-alone diet.
Completely Balanced
Because it is impossible to balance a canine diet from food alone, we add the necessary nutrients to each of our meals to create superior nutritional profiles (see chart below in formula details). Not all nutrient supplementation is created equal. We are very proud that 100% of our added nutrients are processed by NHK Laboratories, a well respected, state of the art facility that is FDA and CGMP Compliant as well as NPA, NSF and GMP Certified (all documentation available upon request). NHK produces for us a very specific blend for each of our recipes. The importance of this cannot be overstated. Too many dog food manufacturers use a 'standard blend’ of feed grade nutrients on a variety of their different food just to get them ‘in the range’ of a nutrition profile. We make the most of each recipe by blending nutrients for each specific food.
JustFoodForDogs Formula Details
