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My sales partner purchase all of our
ingredients from Amish farms and stores. My sales partner immediate hometown area, in
east-central Illinois, is the location of the fifth largest Amish
community in the world.
Carefully chosen
ingredients. Each of our biscuits and gourmet treats are made with
human food-grade ingredients, but with some very important considerations
for your dog. Following is a list of each of our wholesome, dog-friendly
ingredients.
Blackstrap Molasses is
significantly higher in calcium than regular baking molasses and is a
better choice for your dog.
Pure Honey from local
Amish country apiaries provides the sweetness that dogs love without
using sugar.
Colored Sesame Seed
Sprinkles are used in place of sugared sprinkles that you will find on
many other dog treats.
Colors from foods
such as our creamy pink, smooth yellow and luscious green, all come from
food, not from artificial food coloring. We use red beets for pink,
spinach for green and tumeric for yellow, red currant for red and
blueberries for blue.
Carob is Mother Nature's
alternative to chocolate. Carob grows on trees in pod form, but is
still classed as a legume. Carob is a natural cocoa substitute for those
who cannot eat chocolate, including our four-legged friends. Carob has no
caffeine, which is the ingredient in chocolate most harmful to dogs. Carob
is also virtually fat-free and is a rich source of protein, fructose and
vitamins A and B. We purchase carob in large blocks for melting, in powder
form as a dry ingredient and as unsweetened carob chips.
All-natural peanut
butter with no added sugar or salt. We purchase a German brand
supplied by the Amish stores and find it to be an outstanding product.
It's important for your dog that our peanut butter has no added sugar
since we use other sweetening ingredients in our peanut butter recipes.
Our Flours and Powders.
We purchase stone-ground whole wheat flour in two varieties. Medium-ground
provides added fiber and a "crunchier" crunch to our biscuits
and fine-ground flour give a lighter finish to our cupcakes, donuts and
birthday/special occasion cakes. Naturally white, unbleached flour is also
used in our cake recipes and unbleached flour is a better choice for your
dog.
Yogurt coating is
the white "icing" you will find on many of our gourmet dog
treats. We also color the yogurt with the all-natural food colors
mentioned above.
Non-fat dry milk is
used in our biscuit gourmet treats versus regular or skim milk to be sure
we add no more fat from milk.
All-vegetable shortening
made of hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oils is used in all of our
biscuit dog treats except for our cakes, cupcakes and brownie formulas.
Liquids for flavor and
processing include beef broth and chicken broth - both used for flavor
and for processing and water for processing.
Organic low-sodium
tomato sauce and parmesan cheese are the savory toppings on our cheese
pizzas, BBQ Bones and BBQ Ribs gourmet dog treats. As a
"certified" organic product, the tomato sauce must also be made
up of ingredients, each of which must also be certified organic, such as
garlic. Our sauce has no added salt, which is a good choice for your dog.
New product development:
Wheat-free, corn-free, soy-free gourmet treats and a couple flavors of dog
ice cream are currently under development. We look forward to offering
these, and other fine gourmet dog treats to our customers in the near
future.
Thank you for your
interest in our gourmet dog treats. We appreciate the opportunity to serve
you - and mostly to make your four-legged loved one very happy with our
treats.
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