BalanceIT
BalanceIT Canine Vitamin and Mineral Supplement
9.4/ 10 · our score
$25–$60
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Best for
Home-cooked diet owners who need a vet-formulated nutrient premix
If you are home-cooking for your dog, BalanceIT is the credentialed safety net. Dr. Delaney is one of the small number of board-certified veterinary nutritionists in North America, and the recipe-generator tool is genuinely used in academic veterinary medicine. Cooking without it is the modal cause of the multi-nutrient deficiencies the JAVMA recipe-evaluation studies keep finding.
What works
- Developed by Sean J. Delaney, DVM, DACVIM (Nutrition) — board-certified veterinary nutritionist
- Used by veterinary teaching hospitals and DACVIM nutritionists for clinical home-cooked recipes
- Online recipe generator customizes the premix to your specific dog's weight, life stage, and protein/starch base
- Closes the most common home-cooking nutritional gaps (calcium, iodine, copper, manganese, vitamin E)
What doesn't
- You still have to weigh and prepare the food yourself
- Recipe generator costs an extra fee on top of the supplement
- Must rebalance any time the dog's weight, life stage, or medical status changes