Biopur Reis-Pops

Biopur Rice Pops – the “ready-to-go” filling supplement for dogs

We don't actually have to say much about rice. In Asia, 80% of the total diet consists of rice; The Chinese, for example, eat up around 90 kilos of it each year, Chinese by Chinese. Rice is low in calories - around 100 kcal per 100 g of rice (cooked) - but full of carbohydrates, namely around 78 g per 100 g of rice. This makes it a first-class energy source that keeps you full for a long time. It also offers almost 7 g of protein - which is made up of essential amino acids that the body cannot produce itself. In addition to fiber, rice also contains minerals such as magnesium, potassium, zinc and iron. Potassium in particular stimulates the body's water balance and stimulates the kidneys, which in turn ensure detoxification and purification. So no discussion, rice has its place in dog food, especially if, like Biopur, it comes from Italy and is organic. But do you have to cook it for a long time every time? No, you don't have to - there are rice pops, pleasantly light and crunchy creatures made from puffed rice that you can pour straight out of the jar to complete your dog's meal in the most delicious way.

Biopur Reis-Pops

• are made from Italian organic rice;
• are suitable as supplementary food for dogs;
• are gluten-free and sustainably filling;
• is delivered in 400 gram stand-up pouches.

Pops or flakes?

Biopur has both in its range: rice pops and rice flakes. The latter must be soaked before use and will swell to twice their volume. Nutritionally there is no real difference between the two - rice is rice, in this case organic rice from Italy. So what does the choice fall on? If you look at the production - a heat treatment to break down the cell walls in the case of the pops and a mechanical crushing of the grain to generate the flake - then it could be concluded that a few vitamins and other nutrients could fall by the wayside during the heated puffing. On the other hand, the popped rice is fully opened; whatever is left is digested effortlessly. However, if flakes come into the bowl, the digestive juices must first crack the undamaged cell walls of the rice grain in order to make the valuable ingredients accessible - and this is not necessarily guaranteed given the comparatively short dog intestine. So what might have been lost during production with the rice pops doesn't even reach the flake-loving dog because his digestive tract is too short. A stalemate situation. The large-volume pops fill the stomach more quickly and create a feeling of pleasant satiety more quickly. On the other hand, the purists among dog cookers – keyword “raw food” – are more likely to choose the flakes because they are simply closer to the original product.