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Sun March 9, 2008
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Description:
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INGREDIENTS
Fresh Salmon (min 26%), Whole White Rice, Corn, Fish Meal, Barley, Chicken Oil, Oats, Brewers Yeast, Sugar Beet, Whole linseed, Salmon Oil, Herbs (marshmallow, peppermint, fenugreek, parsley, rosemary), Minerals, Vitamins, Yucca Extract, Chondroitin, Glucosamine Sulphate & MSM.
TYPICAL ANALYSIS
Crude Protein 21%
Oil 12%
Fibre 3%
Ash 6%
Omega 6:3 ratio 4.1:1
Vitamin A 20,000iu/kg
Vitamin D3 1,400iu/kg
Vitamin E 120iu/kg
Calcium 1.2%
Phosphorus 0.75%
Zinc 195mg/kg
Copper (as Cupric Sulphate) 15mg/kg
Metabolic Energy 15.1MJ/kg
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Registered: October 2005 Posts: 3953
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Review Date: Sun March 9, 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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First and fifth ingredients are named meat products
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Cons:
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Insufficient meat content, mixed quality grain, controversial filler
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The first ingredient in this food is a named meat product. This is not a meat meal, being inclusive of water content (about 80%). Once this is removed, as it must be to create a dehydrated product, the ingredient will weigh around 20% of its wet weight. As ingredients are listed in order of weight, it is thus unlikely that this is truely the first ingredient in the food, but would be more accurately placed much further down the ingredient list as a minor ingredient in the food. There is a meat meal 5th on the ingredient list. We note that this is a fish meal, but find no guarantee on the manufacturer website that all protein ingredients purchases are free of ethoxyquin (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative, commonly added to fish meal ingredients, but which is banned or heavily regulated in human food production due to the belief that it is carcinogenic).
The grains in the product are of mixed quality. Rice is generally good quality but corn is not an easily digested grain and is of limited value in dog food. It is also commonly associated with food allergies. Barley and oats are minor ingredients of good quality.
Beet pulp is a 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. Vitamins and minerals are added, but no information is given about these and may include synthetics.
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