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Sun March 5, 2006
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Description:
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Ingredients:
Chicken, brewers rice, corn gluten meal, oat groats, pearled barley, soy flour, pea fiber, vegetable oil preserved with mixed-tocopherols, soy protein isolate, dicalcium phosphate, natural flavor, egg product, calcium carbonate, salt, potassium chloride, choline chloride, vitamins [Vitamin E supplement, niacin, Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity)], minerals [zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite], ascorbic acid [source of Vitamin C].
Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein (Min) 26%
Moisture (Max) 12%
Crude Fat (Min) 8%
Calcium (Ca) (Min) 1%
Phosphorus (P) (Min) 0.8%
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Editors
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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Inadequate meat content, use of low quality grains, soy.
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The first ingredient in this 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 likely that this ingredient would be more accurately placed further down the ingredient list. It is the sole meat product in the food.
Brewers rice is the primary grain, and primary ingredient in the food. It 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. 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.
Oats and barley are decent quality grains, but soy flour is filler. Soy is a poor quality source of protein in dog food, and a common cause of allergy problems. Some believe that it is the number 1 cause of food allergies in dogs (outstripping even wheat).
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