My friend has been very busy at home recently. His golden retriever accidentally fell out when he went downstairs not long ago, causing a broken bone. In order to help the dog recover faster, she almost hurried off work every day to boil a pot of bone soup for her golden retriever for about 2 hours.
After I learned about this, I immediately stopped her. Can drinking bone soup supplement calcium and zinc? It’s 9021, why are there still people spreading such rumors? It is completely incorrect to say that the shape complements the shape and what you eat is what you eat.
The pig said: "I was slaughtered after being raised for many months. I still supplemented myself with too much calcium. You actually want to eat me to supplement calcium and zinc?" Maybe these are just a few jokes, but drinking big bone soup is indeed not enough to supplement calcium and zinc.
My friend looked at me with an expression of disbelief. Is this all common sense left by our ancestors? How could this be wrong? From childhood to adulthood, the older generation all said this: drinking bone soup can supplement calcium and zinc. Now suddenly many people tell themselves that it is wrong. Has it been more than 20 years in vain?
It is true that I only drink bone soup to supplement calcium and zinc, but there is no basis for saying so. If it is just that, without some concrete evidence, I believe that it will not convince friends and other people who have this idea. After all, this rumor has been circulating for nearly a thousand years. Now let me talk about it in practical terms. Why can’t you supplement calcium and zinc when drinking bone soup?
Can drinking bone soup supplement calcium and zinc? The pigs all snickered.
1. Bones do contain a lot of calcium, but dogs cannot digest it and absorb it.
The first thing to make sure is that bones do contain a lot of calcium, but this calcium that is often found in bones exists in a synthetic form. Belonging to microbial calcium, this type of microbial calcium cannot be directly digested and absorbed by dogs. The calcium they can directly digest and absorb is free calcium.
So depending on the cooking method, is there any way to extract calcium? Researchers have done relevant experiments before. They made soup with half a kilogram of bones. After boiling the soup for 2 hours, they tested the bone soup and found that the calcium concentration in the soup was less than 2mg/100mL, which means that dogs can absorb very little calcium.
Many people may ask, in this case, can we extract more calcium from bones through other methods? Researchers have already considered this, and they have also conducted corresponding experiments!
Increase cooking time
The first thing the researchers used was to increase the time for boiling soup, and also increased the number of bones. As a result, the soup was very viscous, but the calcium concentration still did not exceed 3mg/100mL. The researchers said, I think the calcium ion in the bone soup that has been stewed for 3 hours is similar to the calcium in the water. I think drinking bone soup has the same effect as drinking water to supplement calcium and zinc.
Big bone soup with vinegar
Some people say that since physical cooking methods cannot change calcium into mineral acid, what about chemical methods? Or researchers, they put vinegar in the bone soup.
The results of scientific research are still unsatisfactory. The calcium water content in big bone soup is 4.32mg/100mL, which is only slightly higher than the calcium water content in drinking water. Many people may not know how much calcium and water content this contains, so we can use goat's milk as a comparison.
Every 100mL of goat's milk contains about 111.3 mg of absorbable free calcium ions. In other words, the bone soup that we have stewed for 2 hours contains only 1% of the calcium in milk, and the calcium content in bone soup with vinegar is only 4% of that of goat's milk.
If you still don't understand, let's put it in a simpler and more direct way, that is, 25 liters of vinegar bone soup has the same calcium content as a box of goat's milk. This means that the big bone soup that the shit shoveling officers have worked so hard to cook for three hours is not as good as buying each box of kefir or goat's milk.
2. Even if you drink 25 liters of bone soup, you cannot supplement calcium and zinc!
For the first time, I discovered that a friend also had the ability to be a keyboard warrior. In order to argue with me, she was willing to use extreme thinking. She asked, what if there is a shit shoveler who wants to feed him 25 liters of bone broth? Wouldn't that have the effect of supplementing calcium?
The incorrect term is incorrect in any case. Even if people think about this extreme assumption and spend all their money to let their rats drink 25 liters of bone soup every day, they still cannot supplement calcium.
It has been scientifically proven that in addition to having very little calcium and water content, big bone soup also lacks vitamin D, which promotes calcium digestion and absorption. The correct way to supplement calcium and zinc is to supplement vitamin D and calcium at the same time. Otherwise, drinking bone soup alone will not be able to achieve the effect of calcium and zinc supplements.
3. The shit shovel official thinks that he is supplementing calcium and zinc. I think what the dog drinks is all fat!
My friend started questioning us again. He said that in this case, the dog should drink 25 liters of bone soup every day and get plenty of sun exposure, so that it can supplement calcium and vitamin D at the same time.
This kind of spirit of asking the truth and being willing to pay any price to prove that you are right is very admirable. But I still want to say that this approach is very wrong. If the dog supplements calcium and zinc in this way every day for a month, it will cause symptoms.
It is definitely not shocking to say that. Anyone who has survived bone soup should know that the longer the bone soup is cooked, the thicker it will be, like milk, but what exactly is this color? I think it's body fat.
As we all know, there are a lot of spinal cords in the bones, and some meat will be adhered to the sides of the bones. After long-term cooking, the fat in the spinal cord and the fat in the meat will melt into the soup, so the juice will look white.
If dogs drink 25 liters of bone soup every day, they will absorb a lot of fat. The director of the Nutrition Department of Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital said that if people drink a lot of bone soup every day, it will easily cause symptoms such as high blood lipids and high uric acid.
I think dogs are all the same. If you consume too much fat for a long time, you will easily become obese. There are countless diseases caused by obesity. Cardiovascular diseases, hepatobiliary diseases, and gastrointestinal diseases all come to our door.
4. Moreover, drinking big bone soup not only fails to replenish calcium and zinc, but eating a lot of it will actually cause calcium loss.
As mentioned earlier, there are a lot of fats and carbohydrates in bones. These substances will actually affect the absorption of calcium. If you eat a lot of bone soup every day, it may also cause calcium loss!
In addition to the fact that the dog’s human body cannot bear it, I believe that the 25 liters of bone soup per day must also be unbearable by the owner’s wallet!
Maybe I’m not saying that dogs can’t drink bone soup. Moderate consumption of bone soup is of great benefit to dogs, but being willing to supplement calcium and zinc by drinking bone soup is just a fantasy.
I think the simplest and most direct way to supplement calcium and zinc for dogs is to drink milk and get plenty of sun exposure. Don’t believe or spread rumors. This is the best way for our dogs. I believe that under the proper care of you, the dogs will grow up happily.