Did you know that food allergy is the most likely cause of allergic symptoms in animals under 1 year of age? Is your dog itching and scratching? Has he vomitted on your carpet? Diarrhoea or upset intestines? Then be alerted! Your dog may have developed an allergy to some substance in his regular dog food. Your vet can test whether this is the case and then you can go and look for the best dog food for your hairy friend and give him some relief.

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Allergic reactions are usually directed against proteins that are recognized by the immune system. Since this protein needs to be of a certain size to be recognized, the industry has put this knowledge to use.

When hydrolyzing proteins the parts become so small that these are too small to be recognized by the immune system. Anallergic dog can be fed food containing hydrolyzed proteins and won’t show an allergic reaction (providing no whole proteins are present in the food).

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