Ingredient Cooking Glossary | U-Z
Home-cooking for your pet starts with proper preparation. This glossary provides clear, expert-backed cooking instructions for commonly used ingredients, helping you safely prepare meals that meet your pet’s nutritional needs.
Each cooking method has been reviewed by Danielle Conway, DVM, ACVIM-Eligible, ensuring that ingredients are prepared in a way that preserves nutrients and maximizes digestibility. From proteins to vegetables and carbohydrates, this guide outlines the best ways to cook each ingredient so you can confidently create balanced, homemade meals for your pet.
Browse the glossary below for step-by-step cooking guidance, and stay tuned for future updates with more ingredient details and nutritional insights!
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Vegetables | Mixed
Vegetables | Mixed
The mixed vegetables should be prepared or left raw as instructed by your nutritionist and measured as the prepared amount. The vegetables may be used on a rotational basis one at a time or mixed together (2-4 at a time) as long as they are rotated every 2-4 weeks.
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Yellow Corn Grits (Corn Meal, Plain Polenta, or Yellow Corn Grits)
Yellow Corn Grits (Corn Meal, Plain Polenta, or Yellow Corn Grits)
The corn meal/polenta/grits should be cooked with water on the stovetop per package instructions, but without salt or butter. Measure the corn on a kitchen gram scale as a cooked amount.
Yucca (Casasva)
Yucca (Casasva)
The cassava (yucca) should be measured as the raw weight. Peel the cassava (yucca) and medium dice. Soak in water until ready to cook. Bring a pot of water to a boil and add peeled cassava. Water should just cover the cassava. Cook for 15 to 20 minutes or until soft or easily pierced with a fork to ensure best digestibility. Cassava (yucca) can be found in a regular grocery store like ShopRite.
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