Green Tripe ... What is it?
In its simplest form, tripe is the stomach of a ruminant (cud chewing) animal, usually a cow, sheep, or goat. Green refers to it being un cleaned and uncooked.
Why feed it?
Green tripe is one of the best, most nutritionally complete foods you can give your dogs. Benefits include a high acid content keep teeth cleaner, providing extra fat for a healthy coat and quick energy, and amino acids to aid in muscular development. Green tripe is also very rich in digestive enzymes, gastric acids, and amino acids, these help your pet to break down and fully utilize their meals. Due to its rubbery nature it also provides some exercise to the jaw. Green tripe has a calcium/phosphate ratio of about 1:1, protein ranges from 16-18% and also contains omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids.
Green tripe is used in Europe as the main ingredient in some kennels raw diet.
Tripe bought in grocery stores is not the same as green tripe. It has normally been bleached and scalded. These processes remove most of the nutrition and benefits found in green tripe.