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Sun March 5, 2006
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Description:
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Ingredients:
Ground yellow corn, wheat middlings, poultry by-product meal, meat and bone meal, poultry fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and ascorbyl palmitate), corn gluten meal, salt, vitamin A acetate, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin E supplement, vitamin B12 supplement, riboflavin supplement, dl-methionine, niacin, calcium pantothenate, choline chloride, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of vitamin K activity), folic acid, biotin, thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, sodium selenite, calcium iodate, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, zinc sulfate, copper sulfate.
Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein (minimum) 22%
Crude Fat (minimum) 10%
Moisture (maximum) 10%
Crude Fiber (maximum) 4.5%
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Registered: October 2005 Posts: 3953
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Review Date: Sun March 5, 2006
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Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
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Use of by-products, low quality grains and meat of unidentifiable origin.
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The primary ingredients in the food are corn and wheat. 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. Corn appears a second time in the ingredients, this time as gluten meal. The AAFCO definition of corn gluten meal 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.” In plain English, that which remains after all the nutritious bits have been removed.
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
The third ingredient is a meat product of unidentifiable origin. It is a meal made from the by-products of carcasses of a variety of fowl, but the origin is unidentifiable. We recommend avoiding any pet food using such ingredients. 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 fourth ingredient is another meat product of unidentifiable origin. The AFFCO definition of meat and bone meal is: "the rendered product from mammal tissues, including bone, exclusive of blood, hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure, stomach and rumen contents, except in such amounts as may occur unavoidably in good processing practices".
Poultry fat is a further low quality ingredient and is impossible to determine the source. 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".
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