Turmeric paste for dogs has 5 key benefits, particularly when it’s the organic kind!
On my quest of finding the perfect, healthy nutrition for my pups Missy & Buzz, I came across the orange turmeric powder at the beginning of this year.
Turmeric is an orange spice from Southeast Asia & the Middle East.
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Benefits Of Turmeric Paste For Dogs
These are its 5 key benefits:
- Anti-cancer benefits
- Anti-inflammatory benefits
- Anti-Septic
- Anti-Bacterial benefits
- Liver detoxifying benefits
I first sprinkled a little on the pups’ respective kibble meals. I kept that habit while transitioning them to a fresh, raw dog food diet a few months ago.
Side note: I found out & learned more about turmeric in this wonderful article in Dogs Naturally Magazine! I just recently subscribed to their hardcopy version of the magazine and received my first issue a few weeks ago. #LoveIt
DIY Turmeric Paste Recipe For Dogs
After I sprinkled the turmeric powder on the pups’ raw meals for a few months, I learned that making a turmeric PASTE would make the spice even more effective.
Good to know: Turmeric paste is also known as Golden Paste because of its dark orange, gold-like color.
Here’s what I used to make Missy’s & Buzz’s very own turmeric paste:
- 1 cup filtered water from our fridge
- 1/4 cup organic cold pressed coconut oil
- 1/2 cup organic turmeric powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
FYI: Black pepper helps the body absorb the turmeric 20 times better, which is why it’s added to turmeric paste.
I poured the water into a pot, added the organic turmeric powder, then stirred for 7-10 minutes on low heat.
Once it thickened, I added the organic coconut oil & the pepper, and mixed everything together.
While I waited for the paste to cool off, I created Missy’s & Buzz’s custom label for the jar I chose to store the turmeric paste in. Just FYI, I typed it in Pages using a fun font *Chalkduster*, printed it, cut it out, & taped it to the jar.
The paste needs to be stored in the fridge. It can be refrigerated up to 2 weeks.
Turmeric Paste For Dogs: How Much To Feed
Dogs can have 1/4 teaspoon of the turmeric paste per 10 lb bodyweight/day.
This translates into Missy getting a little more than 1 teaspoon per day (she weighs 54 lb), and Buzz getting 1 3/4 teaspoon per day (he weighs 74 lb).
Side note: Be careful when handling the turmeric paste…I got some on my hands and ended up with yellow fingers for a few days!
Store-Bought Turmeric Paste as an Alternative
For those days when you need a quick alternative to homemade turmeric paste, you can find premade ones on Amazon as well. For example, Vital Sunshine Turmeric Paste. These are its ingredients, all of which are super healthy for dogs:
- Organic turmeric
- Coconut oil
- Ceylon cinnamon
- Ginger
- Black pepper
- Honey
Please leave your comments or questions below in the comment section!
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Crispy turmeric tater tots recipe for Mommy & golden paste paw prints for the pups
16 comments
Oh this looks super easy to do!
It really is and only takes about 20 mins, prep work included 🙂
Hmmm – looks easy and lots of healthy benefits!
Exactly! Even though I’ve been super busy with pet sitting lately, I found the 20 minutes one evening to whip up our first batch 🙂
I used to make homemade meals for my dog Shadow following Dr. Pitcairn’s recipes. Turmeric was a regular ingredient.
It smelled delicious. But yes, it turns everything yellow.
I was surprised to see pepper in the recipe. I wouldn’t think of pepper being very tasty for pups. Do you know why?
The piperine in the black pepper helps the body absorb the turmeric better (20 times better!!). I wasn’t sure whether the pups would be thrown off by it either, but they don’t seem to mind it one bit! Here’s a great article I found explaining the power of piperine a little better than I can 🙂
http://www.naturalnews.com/024829_piperine_curcumin_black_pepper.html#
That’s a great idea – we give both to our guys everyday, so combining them makes a lot of sense.
Exactly my thoughts 🙂
Thanks for sharing this, Barbara. I’ve been sprinkling it too but had heard about making a paste. The one video I had watched was more basic (no pepper or coconut oil) so you could use it in your own cooking too, but I like having the coconut oil as part of this recipe because it would be a time saver. I’m going to give this a try!
Have fun making a batch for Miss Haley! The recipe calls for ground, black pepper because it increases the absorption of the turmeric by 20 times!!
I’ve been thinking of adding tumeric to our dogs meals since we do sports their health is important to me. Thank you for posting!
My pleasure ~ thank you for stopping by! The neat thing about the paste is that it combines both turmeric AND coconut oil, two of the ingredients that we added separately to the pups’ meals.
I get the pure form of turmeric – curcumin – through Mercola. I started using it when Sheba had her cancerous tumor. I would think I could make this paste with that as well. Since the dogs love coconut oil too I think they’d love it!
Ah, Mercola! I’ve heard about them quite a bit since I started subscribing to Dogs Naturally Magazine 🙂 Just received my second issue in the mail yesterday and love it. I ordered bamboo toothbrushes for the pups last week through Mercola!
Missy’s cancerous tumor was the reason I began researching healthier dog food. It’s been quite the journey, but a very rewarding one.
***Here’s to our pups Sheba & Missy!***
I’m going to start my shepherd on this recipe, in hopes that it will help his lymphoma. How long will it keep refridgerated? If I make a few batches at a time.
Your Shepherd is going to love the turmeric paste! I am so sorry to hear about his lymphoma and hope that the paste is going to help kick cancer’s butt. It lasts up to 2 weeks in the fridge, so I wouldn’t make too many batches at once 🙂
Once our girl Missy kicked cancer’s butt, I started to slowly eliminate all carcinogens from her life I could possibly think of – replaced her kibble by a balanced, raw diet, exchanged the topical pest preventative for a natural insect repellent spray & a little garlic on her food (that’s my latest find, read more in my article http://www.k9sovercoffee.com/nutrition/myth-buster-garlic-is-good-for-dogs-after-all/), stopped using dryer sheets because they contain chemicals.