There are many ingredients that most of you know that are harmful to dogs (including chocolate, garlic, grapes, etc). In some homemade dog food recipes these harmful ingredients could possibly be included inadvertently, but, gum or candy? I do not know of any recipes that call for gum or candy, but some might call for some sort of sweetener. If you come across a recipe that calls for some sort of sweetener, stay away from xylitol. (See below for other alternative sweeteners)

Thinking About Making Your Own Dog Food, Here Is  A Great Homemade Dog Food Recipes

Before I share the actual recipes for you, I wanted to go over some basic concepts for homemade dog food recipes:

1. As I am sure, you can remember back in 2007 when many of pets became severely ill and others died even though a mass recall of pet food was done. The problem was because of pet food that was produced in China being contaminated with melamine. This led to many owners becoming more aware of such problems. The solution is to follow homemade dog food recipes.

Recently, 8 out of 10 dog foods tested by an independent laboratory were found to have between 1.6 and 2.5 times higher than recommended drinking water levels of fluoride according to a report by the Environmental Working Group (EWG).