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We ate dog supplements so you don't have to.

From healthier coats to joints that don't debilitate dogs, pet supplements can provide real health for our best friends. Do they taste good? Let us show you!

Todd Runestad, Content Director, SupplySideSJ.com

July 3, 2024

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At a Glance

Healthy coats and skin feel better to pet our pets.
Joint pain is a terrible thing. Supplements can help.
Do they really taste okay? We sampled them!

If people take supplements, and people name dogs after regular peoples' names (we know an Oscar, a Sam, a Larry who all have tails that wag), then why can't dogs take human-style supplements? Well, they do.

Natural Products Insider content chief Todd Runestad and senior editor Hank Schultz trolled the aisles at Natural Products Expo West this past year and found these four dog supplements that looked good. But do they taste good?

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We cover these finished products, all of which contain functional ingredients besides just bacon.

Bundle + Joy

Glowing

The first of the all-organic ingredient is kelp, which gives it a seaweedy taste. High-quality skin-health ingredients include turmeric and omega-3s.

FurBaby

Multivitamin

This multivitamin powder contains 100% of the letter vitamins and minerals, plus biotin for hair, skin and nails, as well as glucosamine and chondroitin but at smaller doses so maybe best for smaller dogs.

Ready Pet Go

Joint and Hip Mobility

Glucosamine and chondroitin at higher doses for bigger dawgs, and also MSM — the traditional big three.

Yellow Yak

Yum with Bacon

Beautiful Bold Cheese

Prebiotics and probiotics are finding their way into pet supplements, in this case with these hard chews.

About the Author

Todd Runestad

Todd Runestad

Content Director, SupplySideSJ.com, SupplySide Supplement Journal

Todd Runestad has been writing on nutrition science news since 1997. He is content director for SupplySide Supplement Journal and its digital magazines. Other incarnations: content director for Natural Products Insider (now rebranded to SupplySide Supplement Journal), supplements editor for NewHope.com, Delicious Living!, and Natural Foods Merchandiser. Former editor-in-chief of Functional Ingredients magazine and still covers raw material innovations and ingredient science.

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Specialty

Todd writes about nutrition science news such as this story on mitochondrial nutrients, innovative ingredients such as this story about 12 trendy new ingredient launches from SupplySide West 2023, and is a judge for the NEXTY awards honoring innovation, integrity and inspiration in natural products including his specialty — dietary supplements. He extensively covered the rise and rise and rise and fall of cannabis hemp CBD. He helps produce in-person events at SupplySide West and SupplySide East trade shows and conferences, including the wildly popular Ingredient Idol game show, as well as Natural Products Expo West and Natural Products Expo East and the NBJ Summit. He was a board member for the Hemp Industries Association.

Education / Past Lives

In previous lives Todd was on the other side of nature from natural products — natural history — as managing editor at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. He's sojourned to Burning Man and Mount Everest. He graduated many moons ago from the State University of New York College at Oneonta.

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