This holiday season, we’re talking about an Optimum Combination that includes a common protein for this time of year: turkey. The pairing of turkey + chamomile is found in our T27 Nutram Total Grain-Free Small & Toy Breed recipe and it offers calming benefits and relaxing properties which work together to soothe your pet’s body.

Tryptophan and Sleepiness

Have you ever noticed after eating a holiday turkey dinner, you feel tired and ready for bed? Eating foods with tryptophan, such as turkey, in combination with consumption of a large quantity of carbohydrates (bread, potatoes, pies) can lead you to feeling sleepy. 

Tryptophan is an essential amino acid, meaning the body can't produce it. The body has to get tryptophan and other essential amino acids from food. Tryptophan helps the body produce the B-vitamin niacin, which in turn, helps the body produce serotonin, a remarkable chemical that acts as a calming agent in the brain and plays a key role in sleep. 

When turkey and chamomile are combined in our pets’ foods, there is a slightly different impact—a calming effect. 

Optimum Combinations™ for Your Pet’s Optimum Health

Nutram’s super-premium, Canadian-made recipes are unique amongst pet foods in that they feature our Optimum Combinations™—combinations of nutrients, found in our wholesome ingredients, to provide your pet with holistic benefits beyond complete and balanced nutrition. Your pet receives the maximum nutrition benefits of each ingredient, PLUS the advantages of their combination.

Turkey

Turkey is a great source of low-fat protein that is packed with nutrition. It is rich in many vitamins and minerals including B-complex vitamins niacin, B6 and B12 and the essential nutrient choline. Turkey also contains considerable amounts of the minerals magnesium and phosphorus, provides iron, potassium and zinc and is high in selenium, which may help support your immune system.

Chamomile

Best known for its calming properties, chamomile is full of health benefits and is one of the safest herbs you can offer your pet! Chamomile has anti-inflammatory, sedative, and antispasmodic properties.

In addition, chamomile has been valued as a digestive relaxant and has been used to treat various gastrointestinal disturbances including indigestion, diarrhea, motion sickness, nausea, and vomiting.

How the Turkey and Chamomile Work Together

Turkey, a source of tryptophan which offers calming benefits and chamomile with its relaxing properties, work together to soothe the body. You can be confident your pet’s food is healing, wholesome and part of a total wellness lifestyle. 

Try incorporating this Optimum Combinations™ pairing into your pet’s lifestyle by trying the following Nutram recipe that contains turkey and chamomile!

• T27 Nutram Total Grain-Free Small & Toy Breed

 

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