Food Ingredients
🍽️ Course Resource Description: Canine Food Reference Table
This comprehensive Canine Food List is a valuable reference tool for students learning how to support dog health through nutrition and holistic wellness. It includes detailed insights into the nutritional value, medicinal potential, and energetic properties of individual foods—categorized by food type for easy lookup.
By using this resource, students will:
Discover why specific foods are recommended—and when to avoid them
Learn how food affects the dog’s body from both a nutritional and Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine (TCVM) perspective
Understand key nutrients in each food: vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and other active compounds
Use TCVM energetics like warming, cooling, or neutral to balance recipes by season, constitution, or symptoms
Make better choices when building fresh food diets, selecting toppers, or modifying existing commercial diets
Each entry includes:
Food type and classification
Recommended uses and wellness benefits
Potential cautions or contraindications
Nutrient highlights and primary amino acids
TCVM food energetics
This guide is especially helpful for:
Students learning to formulate balanced meals
Pet parents creating therapeutic diets
Holistic practitioners who want to integrate food energetics into wellness plans