Feeding meat to a dog changes its body composition compared to, say, dry food. It’s a reasonable fact, though not 100 percent. Whether it matters, again, depends on the dog and what it does.
Different types of dry food are bought for the dog time and time again. Either the food doesn’t suit the dog at all, the number and size of poop bags aren’t enough during a walk, or acquaintances and strangers in the Facebook world condemn the food as low-quality. At some point, people start asking for a recommendation for a good brand of dry food.
50/50 feeding is a method where dry food and meat are mixed. The ratios can be half of each or something entirely different. The name doesn’t mean that the foods must absolutely be half and half, but it’s just a descriptive name that means one thing: most often, dry food and meat are mixed together.
In a dog’s 50/50 diet, meat and dry food are mixed. The idea is to get proteins and fats from the meat, and use the dry food as a source of trace elements and vitamins.
The use of dry food is the most common way to feed dogs in Finland and around the world. Raw feeding is the most prominent on social media, but in terms of quantity, it is probably the rarest method in terms of market share, despite its loud presence. Of course, there is no researched statistical data on the subject, at least publicly. Overshadowed by raw feeding is the more common feeding method, the 50/50 style.