Dr. Harvey's Paradigm Green Superfood Base Mix for Dogs (6 lb)

My pup loves Dr. Harvey’s Paradigm and I do too. I can’t say enough good it. My baby (pup) is 14.8 yrs, 14lbs and he had a horrific sedation experience for an echocardiogram. He had stopped eating and I was having to spoon feed him every bite. Bought Dr. Harvey’s Paradigm and 1st bowl he ate every bite with enthusiasm and even licked his bowl. I now rotate proteins with Dr. Harvey’s Paradigm and Raw Vibrance and since starting Dr. Harvey’s his appetite is great again and he loves it. I love the ingredients and it’s so easy to make a healthy meal. Just soak the premix in hot water for 8-12 minutes and add meat of choice raw or cooked and an omega 3. I will definitely buy again and definitely recommend. Great green superfood base for great easy healthy homemade meals.

Our hearts sank when we found out our beloved 8 year old golden retriever has cancer. A small tumor was spotted by our vet and removed during a minor procedure and it came back as Hemangiosarcoma, cancer of the blood. We were given 2 options... 1) Have an ultrasound and see if it has spread and do nothing or 2) give her chemotherapy. We're not one to want chemotherapy for ourselves so I am not wanting to give this poison to our girl either. Luckily the results showed that it did not spread but there could be other tumors not seen in the scans. Being on Keto diet ourselves we know the benefit of the diet and how cancer prevention if not elimination is a major benefit of eating this way, so why not put our girl on it. Easier said than done... there are some great foods out there for dogs but many if not most still have fruit or some sort of carbohydrate to bind it together. Yes, there is a raw diet but that is expensive, time consuming and not really that user friendly. Introducing Dr. Harvey's paradigm... what an amazing product! Completely keto with added ingredients such as turmeric which is great for inflammation. Simply add a fat of some sort, we use fish oil and coconut oil and a protein, we use frozen raw pieces from Northwest Naturals and move out of the way because your dog will knock you down to get to this food. I have never seen my dog get so excited and whine for a food than when i prepare this. The 8 minutes for it to re-hydrate feel like eternity for her, she will lick her bowl completely clean then go back a few minutes later to lick it some more in hopes that some more magically appeared. Her attitude is completely different, she has much more energy than she has in years. We could tell her back hips have been bothering her for a while, very slow and labored when getting up, seemed like arthritis. Now she jumps up, not slow at all, ready to play and run at any moment now. Mind you, this is after 2 weeks of using this food she is acting like this. Her next scan is coming up next month to see if her cancer has spread at all. If her attitude and energy is an indication of that, I would say no, were going to kill this horrible disease with the help of this amazing food and no poisonous drugs that the oncologist says is your only option. Thank you for making this Dr. Harvey, I believe you have extended my dogs life and made her feel like a puppy again, thank you from the bottom of my heart. *Follow up 9 months later* It’s been 9 months since this horrible diagnosis and I am happy to say she is still cancer free and still goes crazy when we make this food for her. She whines impatiently to get her food and still is playful with a lot of energy, you could never tell she was diagnosed with cancer, we believe this food along with the raw meat and vegetables that we give her every day has saved her life!

I can not find anything wrong with this food! The smell is so unbelievable! I dog sit for 5 dogs at one time, pour hot water on mix and all 5 dogs are at my feet! The health of my Westie was keeping us up at night. The sounds in his stomach were so loud and so horrible and getting worse! His poop was at times just as horrible. I would take pics and samples so 3 different vets and lots of lab work lots of money, my last westie was almost as bad. I feed only the finest foods and yet I had to keep pepto at hand. No one had an answer just a pill that never really helped. Took him over to the holistic vet, pics and samples told her the sounds were not only keeping us up, my baby was confused! He did not get junk food or crappy treats. Researched his food and even recommended his food to my clients. Paid alot of money! I was cooking Turkey for my pup, chicken always made the dogs itch and red meat was to fatty. The vet said as long as I was making Turkey for him try his. She handed me a bag of Dr. Harvey's food. I can not stress this enough my dogs life changed that night!!!!!!!! No sound, none! In the morning his poop was perfectly formed!!!! His engery was back over the days. His coat was healthy. His eyes were bright. Oh one other thing, all the vets said he was over weight, he was 22 lbs they wanted him at 20. The holistic vet said read the kibble pack closer, they make kibble with tapioca! When I tell you his kibble was one of the top brands, I was shocked and sad. So when I say there is nothing bad with this product I mean it with all my heart. I have my baby back. You can make it in advance I have to that the dogs are at my feet until its done. ***looks like alot of food when mixed. Had to work with it, but worth it. I play with the amounts and I change up the proteins that I put in it. Dont get nervous if first time doing food like this. I was so afraid I was doing it wrong, watched video, cut the amount and feeding has become a happy healthy time!

Love the product and it's ingredients, great to have the option of a food base mix that is lower in starches that I can add my choice of protein to. I know of many that use this product for their dogs with cancer and for dogs that have renal disease and are having great results with it. I love the smell and so do my dogs, you can actually smell the freshness and see the whole food nutrients as it rehydrates. The ONLY reason I gave a 4 star rating on the $ is because it is fairly expensive for a base mix and for that kind of price I would actually expect the ingredients to be totally organic. I do make home-made foods myself and have been doing this for many years for my dogs and do know that to go totally organic can be a bit more expensive, although it isn't as much as people would have you to believe. And I do wish there was some way to make it so it wasn't quite so dusty, I have asthma and every time I open the bag, even when I'm being careful my asthma acts up so my husband usually deals with moving it to a stainless steel storage container for me and he always complains about the dust factor............BUT I understand if there isn't anything that can be done about it and it would not stop me from using the product. I also have the Raw Vibrance and love it for all there reasons stated above but the extra bonus is that it relies totally on whole foods for it's nutrition, there are no added vitamin and mineral supplements needed. Great products but please consider an organic form in the future for those of us that are THAT picky. :)

I am so happy I found this food because I know nothing about formulating a meal plan for my dogs and this was a nice all-in-one, ready-to-go meal. I would be scared to make my own for fear of not getting the right amount of nutrients. I found a dog right before Christmas 2022, took him to my vet for swollen lymph nodes, and he was quickly diagnosed with B-Cell Lymphoma. Not sure how long he had it before I found him, but I had him for 86 days before I had to put him down. Along with medication, we combatted his cancer with a change in diet, so I researched a lot of brands. This particular type of food - low carb, no sugar, grain free - was just what I was looking for. Of course I can't prove that it helped at all, one would need another test subject with a similar medical profile who didn't eat this food to compare it to. All the canine cancer research that I read pointed to foods and supplements that wouldn't eradicate the cancer, but it was helpful in that it gave the cancer the least amount of energy to grow. Carbs, sugar, some grains were in the group of foods that cancer feeds on according to some studies so I tried to not purposefully feed him any. Again I knew I couldn't change the outcome, Lymphoma is always fatal, the best you can hope for is a delay. But I believe that using this food, along with other supplements, medications, and high quality proteins, allowed him to live comfortably for nearly 86 days with a very aggressive cancer. Cutting down on the inflammation through his diet along with his cancer meds gave him time to enjoy his last 3 months. His last week he had to come off the steroid that was keeping the swelling and tumors at bay because it was causing internal bleeding. Once those meds left his system, the cancer took over. So I'm not advertising this food as some sort of cancer cure or alternative to medicine because lymphoma always wins no matter what you do even with high-powered medicine, and some forms of it move even more aggressively than the one he had. But I feel certain that without this food as part of his cancer treatment journey, he would not have been able to do all of his "bucket list" activities because even if he had lived the same amount of time he definitely would not have felt good enough to participate in normal doggy activities.

We’ve been buying Dr Harvey’s for a few years now and we’ve been happy with their food. I rotate this with Dr Harvey’s Grain free beef and garden veggies. My dog love them both. After many, many years of my dog getting what we call the “gulpies”, I’m happy to say that her episodes of gastro upset she had been having has almost disappeared. So if you’re feeding your dog kibble, and your dog gets reflux, stomach issues, etc, I’d recommend giving this a try. Kibble is heavily processed and this food is more nutritious and it’s nice not having so many vet bills. I’m rating this 4, not 5 stars, because this is very “dusty”. After you scoop, and go to close the bag, stand clear because it’s so thin and fine, it looks like it kicks up a layer. I hope the manufacturer considers making the food less thin, maybe more chunks, like the beef and veggies is. This is easy once you get used to it. You mix it with water, let sit for 10 minutes to rehydrate, and you can add your own protein and oil. We use coconut oil, and lean ground beef. This lets you control which protein you’re feeding. My dog is doing well on this food. We’ve also started only giving fresh fruits and veggies as treats (verses store bought crunchy ones ) and this helps keep her from having stomach upset and issues. Another thing I’d like to see is larger bags to make it more cost friendly, which would be helpful for those with larger dogs or multi dog households.

Dog is 15 or more years old (adopted so no actual age) and started to develop major mobility issues: falling over, syncopal type episodes (no full loss of consciousness though), inability to navigate floors (much less stairs), shaking/trembling, major twitching etc. It looked pretty bad. After a vet visit and some attempts at medication which didn't do much, I decided to observe this dog more closely when I was visiting (mom's house). Symptoms and follow up on the dog's routine made me strongly suspect that perhaps, it was a diabetic problem associated with her age and a carb rich commercial diet she's been on all her life. Having done a lot of pet nutrition research over the years, I knew what to look for and found this. I proposed this diet to her vet and he agreed to give it a shot. She's a beagle, so honestly, the "scent" part is irrelevant. Beagles eat just about anything edible and usually want more. Thus, I can't judge flavor/scent universally, as it may not appeal to ALL dogs (it does have a hint of cloves/cinnamon to it). For her, though, she went from "is it time to euthanize her?" to "yippee ki yay let's run!" I realize she won't live forever, but I sure like to see all dogs get the best of life until the end of their life and if I can do it through nutritional and natural means, fantastic! This food turned her right around from being near immobile to running and playing again in 3 days or less. No more falling, no more shakes, no more syncope and she's running up stairs. Side note: We cold turkey-d her onto the food, and not all dogs have the guts to transition that quickly. I felt the ends justified the means in this case since it was so dire, and guess what? NO gastric issues. Therefore, for US, this was great A+ stuff. I took one tic off on "value for money" because it IS expensive and it doesn't REALLY rehydrate to the amount the bag says it should. Unless, of course, you want to water down the servings, which I don't think would help her at all. She's even lost some weight, and she needed to do that too. Hope this review helps.

I decided to try Dr. Harvey’s Paradigm Green Superfood for my Miniature Schnauzers because I usually make their food myself and wanted a convenient option for busy days. Since the breed is known to have sensitive stomachs, I’m very careful about introducing new foods and ingredients. The instructions were straightforward and easy to follow. From start to finish, it took about 20 minutes to prepare. I’ve made two batches so far—one with ground pork and one with ground turkey—and both turned out great. My dogs absolutely loved it! They licked their bowls clean and then went around inspecting each other’s dishes to see if there was anything left behind. That alone told me how much they enjoyed the taste. Even better, neither dog experienced any stomach upset or digestive issues after eating it. I really appreciate that I can choose the protein source and know exactly what is going into their meals. For anyone looking for a quick, healthy, and customizable option for their dogs, especially those with sensitive stomachs, I would definitely recommend giving Dr. Harvey’s Paradigm Green Superfood a try.

Healthy, easy to prepare, and my dog likes it and it’s nutritious

My dog Loves this! I add cooked Chicken, salmon , eggs or beef and some herring oil and she eats it right up ! Her coat is silky and soft as well! Highly recommend ! Only things was hard to find a scoop in the bag at the beginning

My dogs really enjoy this as part of their raw food diet

My dog stopped eating after second day. There is something in it that is not good.

I love the products but the supply disruption is very annoying