Dog food history
Have you ever wondered how the people come up with things that you are familiar with in your life? TV, Internet, Computer,Video, Microwave etc etc? Every products you are familiar with has its own history. I would think that if caveman heard about Internet, it would have been jaw-dropping. The period that left their stories on the cave for others about their lives would not believe that words can be sent with one click button "Send" in your computer. Sometimes, people can get used to convenience and,forget about importance of the detail.
For dog owners, dry dog food is very familiar in their lives. You go buy a bag of "Ready to eat" dog food,and store at your home and open up the bag and,with not much thinking what you really are feeding to your dogs,you done your job of feeding. Feeding that way is convenient but, have you looked at it really close?
In this entry,I rewind our time way back to 1800's and look closer how the dry food was born.
Interestingly, according to web-rover.com, person who came up with original idea of "dog food" is an American named James Spratt. To make it more interesting,he was an electronitian from Ohio state. He visited London once,and saw the dogs there were fed table scraps or left-over meal from ship,and he wanted to make the meal better.
After he experimented with his guess work to make his "better food", his dog cake was born. The products sold very good over in England. So,in other words,the first dog food was born in England not in USA. The Spratt's dog food arrived in USA in 1890. That is when dogs in America first tasted convenient dog food.
By 1900's, using the base of Spratt's idea,dog biscuits were born. Later,dry dog food appeared. Then,company started studying more on how to preserve their products with stable shelf-life. So,they studied on additives,which makes food palatable and keep the food longer.Then,to make the fat in the dry food not go rancid, they started using BHT (preservatives) etc.
To read full stories,click here.
To learn more on BHT,click here.
So,the history of dry food is not long. Modern people today are in busy life-style. So,many may not think about stop and read the label of the products,but I personally think that knowing what you really are giving to your dogs is very important.I take a time to read label of human food as well. You would think that you are getting frozen shrimp if you buy a bag of frozen shrimp. Look closely,it is with sodium even if it is raw shrimp!! And lots of familiar food in your food is with BHT too. Cereals,hot dog etc etc And sodas is with High fructose corn syrup such as 7 ups,pop tarts,cereals etc etc.. After switching my dog's diet to raw diet, I find myself more conscious about what you eat as well. I cook meal everyday,I use EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Cold press is better. and this is good for not clogging up the artery),I do not fry foods much. ... I bake when I can.
Here is one good tip for kids' favorite Fried Potato.
When you make nice crunchy fried potatoes, you fry twice. One time until it gets a little bendy and then,other time fry with much higher temperature to make it crisp up. Using this concept,you can make nice fried potato using oven. Here is how.
<1> Preheat oven 425F
<2> Line up the baking sheet with non stick foil,and place cut-up potato and drizzle EVOO,sprinkle a little bit of "Steak seasoning"(McCormick is my favorite)
<3> Mix the potato with EVOO and steak seasoning very good on the foil,and line them up single layer on cookie sheet
<4> Bake until the potato gets fork-tender (I usually lift the potato- sticks and shake the cookie sheet a little to make sure potatoes are not stuck with foil..
<5> Turn off the oven. Put the oven with "Broil" with setting HIGH
<6>You keep eye on potatoes until edge gets brown and crisp touch.
I made this fries the other day and me and my husband liked it a lot. You can make sweet potato fries this way too.
It is very interesting that having a dog effected my life this way.. Since I have a dog, I go for walk daily.Well, these days, we jog the last closer distance to home and race with Palette who arrives home faster. She speeds up when I try to pass her and it is tiring,but fun.I would think that if I did not have a dog,I maybe not go for walk. If I did not have Palette, I probably frying foods a lot (I did not think I fry foods a lot but my husband says when i first came over to the states,I fried foods a lot,and was like next Paula Deen,lol. I probably cook more Chinese food than Japanese food back then,but it seems,I fried a lot.). I am now more conscious about what we eat,what she eats. She provides comfort,laugh,joy and everything else and,I am very grateful having her in our life....
For dog owners, dry dog food is very familiar in their lives. You go buy a bag of "Ready to eat" dog food,and store at your home and open up the bag and,with not much thinking what you really are feeding to your dogs,you done your job of feeding. Feeding that way is convenient but, have you looked at it really close?
In this entry,I rewind our time way back to 1800's and look closer how the dry food was born.
Interestingly, according to web-rover.com, person who came up with original idea of "dog food" is an American named James Spratt. To make it more interesting,he was an electronitian from Ohio state. He visited London once,and saw the dogs there were fed table scraps or left-over meal from ship,and he wanted to make the meal better.
After he experimented with his guess work to make his "better food", his dog cake was born. The products sold very good over in England. So,in other words,the first dog food was born in England not in USA. The Spratt's dog food arrived in USA in 1890. That is when dogs in America first tasted convenient dog food.
By 1900's, using the base of Spratt's idea,dog biscuits were born. Later,dry dog food appeared. Then,company started studying more on how to preserve their products with stable shelf-life. So,they studied on additives,which makes food palatable and keep the food longer.Then,to make the fat in the dry food not go rancid, they started using BHT (preservatives) etc.
To read full stories,click here.
To learn more on BHT,click here.
So,the history of dry food is not long. Modern people today are in busy life-style. So,many may not think about stop and read the label of the products,but I personally think that knowing what you really are giving to your dogs is very important.I take a time to read label of human food as well. You would think that you are getting frozen shrimp if you buy a bag of frozen shrimp. Look closely,it is with sodium even if it is raw shrimp!! And lots of familiar food in your food is with BHT too. Cereals,hot dog etc etc And sodas is with High fructose corn syrup such as 7 ups,pop tarts,cereals etc etc.. After switching my dog's diet to raw diet, I find myself more conscious about what you eat as well. I cook meal everyday,I use EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Cold press is better. and this is good for not clogging up the artery),I do not fry foods much. ... I bake when I can.
Here is one good tip for kids' favorite Fried Potato.
When you make nice crunchy fried potatoes, you fry twice. One time until it gets a little bendy and then,other time fry with much higher temperature to make it crisp up. Using this concept,you can make nice fried potato using oven. Here is how.
<1> Preheat oven 425F
<2> Line up the baking sheet with non stick foil,and place cut-up potato and drizzle EVOO,sprinkle a little bit of "Steak seasoning"(McCormick is my favorite)
<3> Mix the potato with EVOO and steak seasoning very good on the foil,and line them up single layer on cookie sheet
<4> Bake until the potato gets fork-tender (I usually lift the potato- sticks and shake the cookie sheet a little to make sure potatoes are not stuck with foil..
<5> Turn off the oven. Put the oven with "Broil" with setting HIGH
<6>You keep eye on potatoes until edge gets brown and crisp touch.
I made this fries the other day and me and my husband liked it a lot. You can make sweet potato fries this way too.
It is very interesting that having a dog effected my life this way.. Since I have a dog, I go for walk daily.Well, these days, we jog the last closer distance to home and race with Palette who arrives home faster. She speeds up when I try to pass her and it is tiring,but fun.I would think that if I did not have a dog,I maybe not go for walk. If I did not have Palette, I probably frying foods a lot (I did not think I fry foods a lot but my husband says when i first came over to the states,I fried foods a lot,and was like next Paula Deen,lol. I probably cook more Chinese food than Japanese food back then,but it seems,I fried a lot.). I am now more conscious about what we eat,what she eats. She provides comfort,laugh,joy and everything else and,I am very grateful having her in our life....
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