Sardines
Small Fish. Big Nutrition. Whole and Wild.
Sardines pack an unusual amount of nutrition into a small package: one of the few whole foods that delivers meaningful omega-3s, calcium, and CoQ10 from a single ingredient.
Because sardines are fed whole with their small, soft bones intact, they're one of the more concentrated natural calcium sources you can add to a raw diet, on top of the omega-3s they're best known for. They're wild-caught in the Pacific and, like most small schooling fish, spend their short lives feeding near the bottom of the food chain, which keeps their mercury levels low compared to larger predatory species. Sardines can be fed frozen or sliced thinly for pets who are new to fish or picky eaters, and pair well with our supplemental raw food base mixes. If sardines happen to be sold out, our herring, anchovies, and mackerel make a good substitute for fresh, oily fish.
Raw Feeding Fact
Sardines are one of the richest natural food sources of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), a compound every cell needs to produce energy and that also functions as an antioxidant. CoQ10 levels naturally decline with age, which is part of why it shows up in supplements aimed at aging hearts, in pets and people alike. Getting it from a whole food source like sardines, alongside the calcium in their bones and the omega-3s in their fat, is what makes this fish such a nutritionally dense addition to a rotation, well beyond what any single fish oil capsule can offer.