Functional Food Library.
A searchable guide to whole foods, botanicals and functional ingredients, built around what they may contribute, where the evidence sits, and when a useful topper becomes a more medicinal exposure.
Start with the purpose, not the trend.
Functional foods are ordinary foods or food-derived ingredients that may contribute something useful beyond calories alone. That might mean omega-3s, fermentable fibre, anthocyanins, beta-glucans, iodine, sulforaphane precursors or specific botanical constituents.
This does not mean every ingredient is right for every dog, or that a so-called superfood can fix an unbalanced diet. The library is designed to make those boundaries clearer and easier to navigate at a glance.
Search for gut support, joint nutrition, antioxidants, omega-3s, calming support, hydration and more.
Direct canine evidence is separated from mechanistic research, extrapolation and traditional veterinary-herbal use.
Cards stay concise, while deeper profile detail is tucked behind expandable sections to reduce visual overload.
Medication context, contraindications and the point where food use becomes more medicinal are kept easy to find.
Summaries are shortened on the grid so the page feels lighter, while detailed content opens only when you want more depth.
Depth, shadowing, iconography and subtle texture guide the eye so users can move through the page more naturally.
Forest green, warm gold, natural neutrals and botanical cues keep the page cohesive with the rest of the website.
Search by food, function or compound.
Try a food name such as "ginger", a nutrient such as "DHA", or a function such as "gut", "joint", "antioxidant" or "iodine".
How to read the evidence labels.
The labels are there to add context, not inflate claims. They help you see, quickly, whether a profile is supported mainly by direct canine work, broader nutritional science, mechanistic data or traditional veterinary-herbal use.
Useful dog-specific data, established nutrient biology, or both.
Promising or useful evidence, but often dependent on the exact ingredient, extract or formulation.
Biologically plausible and worth watching, but not yet a licence for sweeping canine claims.
Materia medica and traditional practice can add helpful context, while remaining distinct from controlled clinical evidence.
Use the food, check the evidence, keep the whole diet in view.
The Functional Food Library is designed to work alongside the rest of TBC’s free resources, not replace them. Use it to identify possibilities, then zoom out and keep the whole dog, the whole bowl and the wider context in sight.
The Research Hub
Go deeper into canine studies, evidence quality and the research behind fresh feeding, botanicals and healthspan.
Feeding Calculators
Functional additions still sit inside an overall diet. Use TBC’s calculators to keep the bigger nutritional picture visible.
Global Practitioner Finder
When a food becomes more therapeutic, or medication and disease enter the picture, find appropriately qualified support.