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Sun January 13, 2008
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Description:
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Ingredients
Wheat, Chicken Meat Meal, Meat Meal, Wheatfeed, Oils & Fats, Maize Gluten, Vitamins & Minerals, Linseed, Maize, Peas, Beet Pulp, Lucerne. Added Citrus, Yeast and Yucca. With Antioxidant and Preserved with: EC Additives.
Typical Analysis
Protein 28.00%
Oil 10.00%
Fibre 3.00%
Ash 7.50%
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Registered: October 2005
Posts: 3953
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Review Date: Sun January 13, 2008
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Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
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Insufficient meat content, meat and fat of unidentifiable origin, low quality grains, controversial filler
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The main ingredients are low quality grains. Wheat is believed by many to be the leading cause of food allergies in dogs, and in wheatfeed form, this is a grain fragment we consider primarily filler. Wheatfeed is a byproduct (think floorsweepings) of processing wheat for human foods - that is, the remainder of the grain after the nutritious bits have been removed for other purposes. Maize (corn) is a difficult to digest grain of limited value, and which is also commonly associated with food allergies in dogs. Corn gluten meal it is that part of the commercial shelled corn that remains after the extraction of the larger portion of the starch, gluten, and term by the processes employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup. In plain English, the remains of corn after most of the nutritious bits have been removed. Even if these had been decent quality grains, we would still note that this food is based heavily on grains which are an unnatural foodstuff for canines. Dog foods should be based on meat.
The first meat ingredient is named meat meal, second on the ingredient list. The third ingredient is also a meat product, but this is a low quality meat product. "Meat" could be anything and ingredients of unidentifiable species and source are usually of very low quality.
The fat and oil content of the food is undisclosed and, as the meat ingredient above, is likely to be of very low quality. Beet pulp is controversial filler. 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.
The food has added vitamins and minerals, but no information about these is given and it may contain synthetics. Likewise, the preservative is undisclosed and may be chemical preservatives such as ethoxyquin, BHT and BHA which are allowed in pet products but are banned or heavily regulated in human food due to the belief that they are carcinogenic.
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