The Humble Pea

The humble pea – found on dinner tables everywhere and an important ingredient in our dog food!

Peas are a concentrated source of highly-digestible vegetable protein and great when used in combination with animal-based proteins as they complement each other to meet an animal’s nutritional requirements.

Different meat sources contribute different levels of protein to a recipe, which is why some recipes contain pea protein whilst others don’t.

For example, if a lamb-based recipe doesn’t meet the overall desired level of protein from the meat ingredients we can include some pea protein to help increase the protein level of the recipe.

We always look to include meat proteins as the main source of protein as they are complete proteins that contain all the essential amino acids required by an animal.

That said, pea protein is a nutritious complementary protein source which is still easily digested and beneficial to the animal… plus they taste great!