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Thu December 27, 2007
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No recommendations
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Description:
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Feeding guideline:
A 50lb dog should be fed 1 3/4 - 2 cups
Metabolizable Energy
3615 kcal/kg
390 kcal/cup
Ingredients:
Trout, Rabbit, Rice flour, Herring Meal, Dried Whole Eggs, Spelt, Fresh Fruits and Vegetables (Whole Apples, Sweet Potatoes, Squash, Spinach, Blueberries, Cranberries and Pumpkin), Chicken Fat (preserved with Vitamin E), Natural Flavors, Flaxseed, Pea Fiber, Milk Calcium Dicalcium phosphate, Sun Dried Alfalfa, Potassium Chloride, Salt, Lecithin, Chicory Root Powder (a source of FOS), Tomato Pomace, Oat Fiber, Kelp Meal, Taurine, Choline Chloride, Bacterial Cultures (Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus casei, Bifidobacterium bifidum, Enterococcus faecium), Bee Pollen, Spirulina, Bromelain, Papain, Vitamin C, Mannanoligosaccharides, Selenium, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Devil’s Claw Extract, Glucosamine Sulphate, Chondroitin Sulphate, Grape Seed Extract, Hawthorne Extract, Vitamin A, Vitamin D3, Vitamin E, Vitamin K (menadione), Vitamin B12, Riboflavin, Niacin, Dicalcium pantothenate, Pyridoxine hydrochloride, Thiamine mononitrate, Folic Acid, Biotin, Tocotrienols, Lycopenes, Ferrous Sulphate, Iron proteinate, Manganous oxide, Manganese proteinate, Zinc Sulphate, Copper Sulphate, Copper proteinate, Calcium iodate, Cobalt Proteinate, Beta carotene.
Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein min. 24.0%
Crude Fat min. 16.0%
Crude Fibre max. 3.5%
Moisture max. 10%
Calcium min. 0.95%
Phosphorous min. 0.83%
Copper min. 20 mg/kg
Zinc min. 210 mg/kg
Vitamin A min. 12000 IU/kg
Vitamin D min. 1200 IU/kg
Vitamin E min. 125 IU/kg
Vitamin B6 min. 3.6 mg/kg
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Editors
Registered: October 2005
Posts: 3953
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Review Date: Thu December 27, 2007
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Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
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Pros:
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Three meat ingredients in top five
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Cons:
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Insufficient meat content, some controversial additives
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The first two ingredients in the food are named meat products. These are inclusive of water content. Once that is removed as it must be to make a dry product, the ingredient will weight around 20% of its wet weight. It is thus unlikely that they are truely the first ingredients in the food, but would be more accurately placed further down the ingredient list. There is a further meat ingredient, this time in meal form, fourth on the ingredient list. It is likely that this is the true main meat ingredient (second overall) in the food.
The main carbohydrate source is rice flour, which is a grain fragment that we consider to be primarily filler. We appreciate the inclusion of whole eggs. In minor ingredients, there is a range of fruits/vegetables and a good range of probiotics. We note the presence of synthetic vitamin K which is a substance linked to liver problems and which is progressively being removed from dog food products.
We do not locate anywhere on the manufacturer site a statement guaranteeing the use of ethoxyquin-free protein ingredients in the food. Ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative commonly added to fish ingredients and that is banned or heavily restricted in human food because it is believed to be carcinogenic.
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