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Sun September 3, 2006
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Description:
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Feeding guideline:
A 50lb dog should be fed 2 - 2-2/3 cups
Calorie content:
3,435 kcal/kg or 321 kcal/cup Calculated Metabolizable Energy.
Ingredients:
WHOLE GRAIN BROWN RICE, CHICKEN, CHICKEN BY-PRODUCT MEAL, OATMEAL, RICE FLOUR, CHICKEN FAT (PRESERVED WITH MIXED TOCOPHEROLS AND CITRIC ACID), BEET PULP (SUGAR REMOVED), FLAXSEED, EGG PRODUCT, NATURAL CHICKEN FLAVOR, FISH MEAL, BREWERS DRIED YEAST, DICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, SALT, CHOLINE CHLORIDE, VITAMIN E SUPPLEMENT, IRON PROTEINATE, ZINC PROTEINATE, COPPER PROTEINATE, FERROUS SULFATE, ZINC SULFATE, COPPER SULFATE, POTASSIUM IODIDE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, MANGANESE PROTEINATE, MANGANOUS OXIDE, ASCORBIC ACID, VITAMIN A SUPPLEMENT, BIOTIN, CALCIUM PANTOTHENATE, MANGANESE SULFATE, SODIUM SELENITE, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B6), VITAMIN B12 SUPPLEMENT, MENADIONE SODIUM BISULFITE (SOURCE OF VITAMIN K ACTIVITY), RIBOFLAVIN, VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENT, FOLIC ACID.
Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein 16.0% minimum
Crude Fat 8.0% minimum
Crude Fat 9.0% maximum
Crude Fiber 3.0% maximum
Moisture 10.0% maximum
Ash 4.0% maximum
Calcium 0.6% minimum
Phosphorus 0.5% minimum
Omega-6 Fatty Acids* 1.7% minimum
Omega-3 Fatty Acids* 0.3% minimum
Glucosamine Hydrochloride*/Chondroitin Sulfate* not less than 400 ppm.
*Not recognized as an essential nutrient by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profile.
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Registered: October 2005
Posts: 3953
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Review Date: Sun September 3, 2006
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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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Insufficient meat content, use of by-products, controversial filler, low quality grain fragments.
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The first ingredient in the food is a grain. Whole brown rice is a decent quality grain, but a dog food needs to be based on meat not plant material. It is not necessary to reduce meat content to reduce fat. The crude protein content of the food is below AAFCO minimums for adult maintenance.
The next ingredient in the food is chicken - inclusive of its water content. Once this is removed, as it must be to make a dry food, the ingredient will weigh around 20% of its wet weight. It is thus unlikely that it is the true first ingredient in the food, and it is likely to be more accurately placed much further down the ingredient list.
The next ingredient is by-products. The AAFCO definition of chicken by-product meal is "consisting of the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts as might occur unavoidable in good processing practice." We recommend avoiding any product using this type of ingredient.
The next 2 ingredients are grains. Oatmeal is a decent quality, but rice flour is a grain fragment and filler.
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.
There is a second meat meal ingredient 11th on the ingredient list. This is a fish meal, however, and we fail to find any assurance on the manufacturer's website that the ingredient is not treated with Ethoxyquin. Ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative, banned or heavily regulated in human food, and believed to be carcinogenic (and is commonly added to fish meal ingredients).
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