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Grain-free diets
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Grain-free diets
- Author: Georgia Woods-Lee
- From: BSAVA Guide to Nutrition in Small Animal Practice
- Item: 4, pp 24 - 28
- DOI: 10.22233/9781913859589.4
- Copyright: © 2025 British Small Animal Veterinary Association
- Publication Date: August 2025
Grain-free diets are becoming increasingly popular with owners and, as a consequence, veterinary professionals need to provide guidance about the advantages and disadvantages of such foods as recent work has questioned the safety of their use.
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Figure 4.1
Examples of grains that are excluded from a grain-free diet: (a) wheat, (b) maize, (c) sorghum and (d) millet.
(Images used under licence from Shutterstock.com: (a) © kungfu01, (b) © Photoongraphy, (c) © Zoeytoja and (d) © domnitsky) © 2025 British Small Animal Veterinary Association
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Figure 4.1
Examples of grains that are excluded from a grain-free diet: (a) wheat, (b) maize, (c) sorghum and (d) millet.
(Images used under licence from Shutterstock.com: (a) © kungfu01, (b) © Photoongraphy, (c) © Zoeytoja and (d) © domnitsky)
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Figure 4.2
Echocardiograms from a Labrador Retriever with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). The patient was being fed a grain-free diet and presented with congestive heart failure. (a, c) Right parasternal four-chamber views and (b, d) left ventricular M-mode views at the level of the chordae tendinae. (a) Left atrial and left ventricular dilatation are present. Note also the relatively thin left ventricular walls. (b) The pump function of the left ventricle was poor in real-time. Following a change in diet, including taurine supplementation, and the administration of conventional cardiac medications, such as furosemide, pimobendan, benazepril and spironolactone, (c) less dilatation was observed in the left ventricle and left atrium, and (d) there was improved pump function. IVS = interventricular septum; LA = left atrium; LV = left ventricle; LVFW = left ventricular free wall.
(© Jo Dukes-McEwan, University of Liverpool) © 2025 British Small Animal Veterinary Association
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Figure 4.2
Echocardiograms from a Labrador Retriever with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). The patient was being fed a grain-free diet and presented with congestive heart failure. (a, c) Right parasternal four-chamber views and (b, d) left ventricular M-mode views at the level of the chordae tendinae. (a) Left atrial and left ventricular dilatation are present. Note also the relatively thin left ventricular walls. (b) The pump function of the left ventricle was poor in real-time. Following a change in diet, including taurine supplementation, and the administration of conventional cardiac medications, such as furosemide, pimobendan, benazepril and spironolactone, (c) less dilatation was observed in the left ventricle and left atrium, and (d) there was improved pump function. IVS = interventricular septum; LA = left atrium; LV = left ventricle; LVFW = left ventricular free wall.
(© Jo Dukes-McEwan, University of Liverpool)