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Sun November 20, 2005
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Description:
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Ingredients:
Chicken meal, rice, brown rice, corn, wheat gluten, corn gluten, chicken fat (naturally preserved with mixed tocopherols, rosemary extract and citric acid), chicken, natural chicken flavor, beet pulp, salt, cellulose, rice hulls, salmon oil, soya oil, potassium chloride, chicory extract, calcium carbonate, hydrolyzed vegetable oil, choline chloride, sodium tripolyphosphate, taurine*, Vitamins [dl-alpha tocopherol (source of vitamin E), inositol, niacin, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C*), d-calcium pantothenate, biotin, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), riboflavin (vitamin B2), thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), vitamin A acetate, folic acid, vitamin B12 supplement, vitamin D3 supplement], Trace Minerals [zinc proteinate, zinc oxide, ferrous sulfate, manganese proteinate, copper proteinate, copper sulfate, manganous oxide, sodium selenite, calcium iodate], borage oil, green tea extract, glucosamine hydrochloride, L-carnitine, chondroitin sulfate.
Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein Minimum 28%
Crude Fat Minimum 14%
Moisture Maximum 11%
Crude Fiber Maximum 5%
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Editors
Registered: October 2005
Posts: 3953
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Review Date: Sun November 20, 2005
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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 ingredient is a named meat product.
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Cons:
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Insufficient meat product in the food. Extensive use of cheap grain and other controversial fillers.
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The first ingredient in this food is a named meat product, but it is followed by two forms of rice. It is likely that when the two rice products are not “split” (see note about practice of “splitting” on main page) that in fact it is rice rather than chicken that is the primary ingredient in the food.
Corn is the next grain in the food and a problematic one for dogs being the cause of a great many allergy and yeast infection problems. Wheat is similarly problematic and is the number one cause of allergy problems in dog food. Wheat gluten is a by-product of wheat – likely to be similar to corn gluten 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.” In plain English, that which remains after all the nutritious bits have been removed. Both corn and wheat gluten are prominent ingredients in the food.
Beet pulp is yet another controversial ingredient – 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 especially so high on the ingredient list. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
Further down the ingredient list is rice hulls, which is a filler (the outer casing of rice) and soy, which 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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