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After 7 days feeding each diet, fasting blood glucose was the lowest in the lentil (3.5 \u00b1 0.1 mmol\/L) and wrinkled pea (4,140\u20134; 3.6 \u00b1 0.1 mmol\/L) diet periods, while peak glucose levels was lowest after feeding the lentil diet (4.4 \u00b1 0.1 mmol\/L) compared to the rice diet. Total tract apparent digestibility of all macronutrients as well as taurine differed among diets yet plasma taurine was not outside normal range. Decreased macronutrient and amino acid digestibility was associated with increasing amylose and dietary fiber content but the specific causative agent could not be determined from this study. Surprisingly, digestibility decreases were not due to increased bile salt loss in the feces since increasing dietary fiber content led to decreased fecal bile salt levels. In conclusion, although pulse-based canine diets have beneficial low glycemic properties, after only 7 days, these pulse-based diets decrease macronutrient and amino acid digestibility. 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