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Wed January 2, 2008
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Description:
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Feeding guideline:
A 50lb dog should be fed 4 - 4 1/3 cups for maintenance or 3 - 3 1/4 cups for weight loss
Calorie content:
244 kcals/per cup
Ingredients
Rice Flour, Lamb Meal, Ground Rice, Rice Bran, Dried Plain Beet Pulp, Powdered Fiber, Natural Flavors, Soybean Oil (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Poultry Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Yeast Culture, Calcium Carbonate, Sunflower Oil (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Potassium Chloride, Monocalcium Phosphate, Taurine, Dried Kelp Meal, Choline Chloride, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Vitamin E Supplement, Ascorbic Acid (source of Vitamin C), Manganous Oxide, Biotin, Garlic Flavor, Calcium Pantothenate, Niacin, Copper Sulfate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement (source of Vitamin B2), Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Vitamin A Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of Vitamin B6), Thiamine Mononitrate (source of Vitamin B1), Chondroitin Sulfate, Calcium Iodate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (source of Vitamin K activity), Sodium Selenite, Folic Acid.
Guaranteed Analysis
Crude Protein (minimum) 14.00%
Crude Fat (minimum) 6.00%
Crude Fiber (maximum) 8.50%
Moisture (maximum 10.00%
Linoleic Acid (minimum) 2.00%
Zinc (minimum) 220 mg/kg
Vitamin E (minimum) 100 IU/kg
Ascorbic Acid (minimum)** 40 mg/kg
Alpha-Linolenic Acid (ALA) (minimum)** 0.15%
Glucosamine Hydrochloride (minimum)** 400 mg/kg
Chondroitin Sulfate (minimum)** 300 mg/kg
**Not recognized as an essential nutrient by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles.
Nutritional Adequacy Statement
Animal feeding tests using AAFCO¹ procedures substantiate that Nutro Natural Choice Lite provides complete and balanced nutrition for the maintenance of adult dogs
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Registered: October 2005
Posts: 3953
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Review Date: Wed January 2, 2008
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Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
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Pros:
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Second ingredient is a named meat product
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Cons:
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Inadequate meat content, mixed quality ingredients, fat of unidentifiable origin, controversial filler
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The second ingredient is a named meat product, in meal form. There is a further meat meal ingredient 9th on the ingredient list, but this is too far down to make any significant contribution to the meat content of the food. This is a fish meal ingredient, but we find no guarantee on the manufacturers website that protein sources are ethoxyquin-free (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative commonly added to fish destined for meal, and is believed to be carcinogenic).
The grains are of mixed quality. Rice is decent quality grain (and the main ingredient in the food), but rice bran is a grain fragment we consider primarily filler. In flour form (in dog food, commonly a byproduct of human food production) is a grain fragment. Powdered fiber is sawdust.
Poultry fat is a further low quality ingredient rarely found in anything but very low quality foods. Poultry fat is an ingredient of unidentified origin for which it is impossible to determine source or quality. Unidentified ingredients are usually very low quality. AAFCO define this as obtained from the tissues of poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words "used as a preservative".
Beet pulp is controversial filler which appears to be used in large quantities in this food. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
We note that this product includes synthetic vitamin K, a substance linked to liver problems and that is progressively being removed from better quality dog food products.
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