Dog Food Supplement In Powder Form, Yes or No?

Synthetic minerals and vitamins as a food supplement for dogs. We often get asked whether we need to add some powdered mineral-vitamin supplements to our BARF products. People are so used to dog food having various synthetic ingredients added (such as Vit A 15,000, Vit E 100, Mn 6.1, Fe 57, antioxidant E310, etc.) that they find it strange when our products don't have these. To us, that sounds like someone offering us humans a teaspoon of mineral vitamin powder every time after a complete meal. The idea is that dogs, like humans, get all the necessary nutrients from quality ingredients in a varied diet. It doesn't occur to any of the people to continuously add some mineral and vitamin powder to themselves or their child, right? 

It is well known that synthetic vitamins and minerals are used in industrial dog food. Even here, every dog ​​owner should ask himself about the quality of the ingredients used in dog food. Because if diverse, high-quality foods are used, this diversity will provide all the necessary nutrients.

Intensive processes of cooking and drying, inherent in the production of dehydrates, further reduce the quality of the ingredients. High temperature destroys minerals, vitamins, enzymes naturally contained in food. Figuratively speaking, if you subject even the best steak to long-term cooking to the extent that it 'disintegrates' into a fraction made up of proteins and a fraction made up of fats, it is easy to conclude that there are not many nutrients left in that steak, nor much taste. Therefore, if synthetic vitamins and minerals have been added to some food, it means that quality ingredients are not used in the production of that food and/or they are exposed to processing processes that destroy all essential nutrients in these foods.
Intensive food processing processes not only they destroy the essential ingredients of food, but also change proteins and fats. Such altered proteins are usually very difficult to digest and very often cause allergies because they remain undigested in the body and irritate it. Synthetic vitamins and minerals are not as useful for the body as vitamins and minerals naturally contained in food. Receptors responsible for resorption of certain essential substances from food are very quickly 'clogged' with synthetic versions of these substances. Often, in animals and people, at the beginning of taking a synthetic supplement, improvements in the body's condition are seen. This positive initial effect quickly ends because the receptors, due to being 'clogged', can no longer resorb the necessary nutrients.
To conclude, the minerals and vitamins found in high-quality BARF rations are much more useful for the health of dogs than those contained in some powders or tablets.