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Garlic – Toxic or Health Food?

16 December, 2020

Using Garlic in Dog & Cat Food: Garlic has been widely used as both a culinary and medicinal herb for thousands of years, both for people and animals. In more recent times, the use of garlic in dog and cats foods has been questioned because there is evidence that at high doses it can cause toxicity (its close relative, onions, are also quite toxic when fed raw). Whilst this is true, the reported toxic doses are in the order of one large clove of garlic per 5kg bodyweight of animal daily (which is a very high dose), and it is…