Orijen Fit & Trim Dog Food is a grain-free formula specially formulated to support dogs who require increased protein. This dish features fresh free-run chicken and turkey, wild-caught fish and cage-free eggs sourced directly from Orijen farms in Europe.
Orijen recipes follow the Wholeprey principle, which uses only those parts of animals rich in nutrition such as meat, organs and bone that provide essential nutrition to dogs as an ancestral carnivores. This provides them with optimal health benefits for optimal performance in Orijen recipes that match up to what their bodies were designed to eat: fresh meat of various sorts!
Contents
Ingredients
Ideal for overweight dogs, this food features high levels of protein and moderate levels of fat to build lean muscle mass while providing ample carbohydrates from vegetables and fruits.
Deboned chicken and chicken meal are the main proteins found in this food, along with poultry fat preserved with mixed tocopherols. Brown rice, barley, oatmeal, pea fiber and quinoa standout as carbohydrates; furthermore it offers healthy benefits like probiotics, glucosamine and chondroitin for additional support.
ORIJEN pet foods follow the WholePrey diet concept, offering your dog richly nutritious ratios of fresh meat (including organs and cartilage), cage-free eggs, and wild-caught fish to create an optimal nutritional environment that supports their wellbeing and helps ensure they thrive.
Nutritional Values
Legally required nutritional values for dog foods must be displayed on their labels; typically these values include crude protein, crude fat and crude fiber content. ORIJEN recipes have been developed to meet this standard while offering your pet an ideal food that provides abundant nourishment that is biologically appropriate.
Utilizing unrivaled quantities of fresh or raw ingredients sourced exclusively from free-run chicken, turkey, wild-caught fish and cage-free eggs; and without rendered poultry meals or meat by-products as rendered animal foods – this weight conscious recipe boasts high quantities of lean protein for supporting lean muscle mass and reaching peak conditioning and weight maintenance. Two thirds of animal ingredients come directly from free-range poultry (chicken/turkey/turkey), wild fish catches (wild/catch fish) or cage-free eggs while gently freeze-dried liver enhance flavour and palatability.
This recipe is also designed to reduce carbohydrates to prevent weight gain in overweight dogs. While carbs serve as energy sources, too many could end up stored as fat if fed too frequently; so, for this reason, it is crucial that overweight canines receive diets low in carbohydrates.
Ingredient Sources
This kibble was specially formulated to promote lean muscle mass development and maintain healthy weight in overweight dogs, providing them with ample nourishing protein from 85% of high-quality, whole animal ingredients such as free-run chicken and turkey, wild-caught fish and cage-free eggs containing WholePrey ratios that include meat organs cartilage and edible bones – providing a more concentrated source of essential vitamins and minerals than synthetic supplements can offer.
Food made for picky eaters features freeze-dried liver and poultry to increase flavor, along with 15% fresh fruit, vegetables, and botanicals to provide a well-rounded diet.
Carbs provide energy but too many can turn into fat stores if consumed too abundantly in a diet. ORIJEN recipes contain minimal carbohydrates (as shown by their guaranteed analysis), to ensure your pet receives energy from protein sources without excess fat accumulation. Plus, our recipes incorporate both insoluble and soluble fibre from fruits, vegetables, seeds and legumes for additional digestive support – providing your pup with nutritional support tailored specifically to his or her evolutionary needs.
Manufacturing Process
Orijen recipes use high levels of quality animal ingredients, creating a diet similar to what your pup’s wild ancestors would have eaten. This is done using whole prey ingredients like poultry meat, turkey meat, chicken cartilage and livers – each providing highly bio-available nutrients which are easily absorbed and utilized by their respective bodies.
Animal proteins from both fresh and raw sources are supplemented by fruits, vegetables, and botanicals to make up most of our calories. Low glycemic fruits and vegetables as well as small amounts of legumes like lentils chickpeas and beans help make up remaining carbs in our diets.
Orijen offers an excellent ratio of quality protein and minimal carbohydrates that makes this food suitable for overweight dogs, while meeting FEDIAF adult maintenance requirements for weight management. Furthermore, they also offer large breed and giant breed puppy recipes which may help during their rapid growth phase.
