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Description: Ingredients:
Chicken, brewers rice, whole grain corn, poultry by-product meal, whole grain wheat, corn gluten meal, beef tallow preserved with mixed-tocopherols (source of Vitamin E), oat meal, pea fiber, fish meal, natural flavors, dicalcium phosphate, salt, potassium chloride, brewers dried yeast, potassium citrate monohydrate, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, choline chloride, vitamin supplements (E, A, B-12, D-3), zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, ascorbic acid (source of Vitamin C), manganese sulfate, niacin, choline chloride, calcium pantothenate, riboflavin supplement, copper sulfate, biotin, garlic oil, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamine mononitrate, citric acid, folic acid, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), calcium iodate, sodium selenite.

Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein (min) 26%
Crude Fat/Oil (min) 16%
Moisture (max) 12%
Crude Fiber (max) 4.5%



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Registered: October 2005
Posts: 3953
Review Date: Sun March 5, 2006 Would you recommend the product? No | Price you paid?: Not Indicated | Rating: 0 

 
Pros:
Cons: Insufficient meat content, by-products, use of low quality grains and fat.

The first ingredient in the food is a named meat product, but since this is chicken inclusive of its water content (about 80%) and this ingredient will weigh only about 20% of its wet weight once water is removed (as it must be to make kibble) it is unlikely that this is the true first ingredient in the food. There is a further meat product in the food, fish meal 10th on the ingredient list but this is too low to make up a substantive portion of the food. We note that the manufacturer does not claim to use ethoxyquin-free sources (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative commonly added to fish destined for meal, and is believed to be carcinogenic).


The next two ingredients are both low quality grains. Brewers rice is a low quality grain and by-product. Corn is a problematic grain that is difficult for dogs to digest and thought to be the cause of a great many allergy and yeast infection problems. We prefer not to see this used in dog food. In it's gluten form, it is also a waste product for which the AAFCO definition is "the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm". Corn gluten meal is 6th on the ingredient list.


The next ingredient is by-products, of unidentifiable source. It is impossible to ascertain the quality of by-products and these are usually products that are of such low quality as to be rejected for use in the human food chain, or else are those parts that have so little value that they cannot be used elsewhere in either the human or pet food industries. The AAFCO definition of poultry by-product meal is “a meal consisting of the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered poultry, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts as might occur unavoidable in good processing practice.”


The use of wheat is a significant negative: wheat is believed to be the number one cause of allergy problems in dog food. This is another ingredient we prefer not to see used at all in dog food. Beef tallow is a very low quality fat obtained from the tissue of cattle in the commercial process of rendering. Pea fibre is filler.


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