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Read Your Pet Food Label |
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The best way to determine the quality of your pet food is to
carefully read and understand the label. |
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While reading the label, ask yourself the following questions: |
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Does the food use high quality ingredients? |
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Is there a quality meat source as one of the first two ingredients? |
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Are the ingredients human-grade? |
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Is the bag dated for freshness? |
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There are hundreds of brands and varieties of dog food Here is a
table listing a few of the more |
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popular brands. I have listed the less desirable ingredients in
red. Please keep in mind that |
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ingredients are listed in descending order by weight. For example,
if corn is listed as one of the |
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first three ingredients this is less desirable than if it were
listed as the eighth ingredient. |
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Dog Food |
First Eight Ingredients |
Human Grade? |
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Alpo Complete |
Ground yellow corn, digest of chicken by-products meal, |
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Lamb, Rice & |
poultry by-product meal, animal fat, lamb meal,
brewer's |
No |
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Barley |
rice, ground barley, soybean meal |
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Bil-Jac Select |
Fresh chicken by-products, fresh chicken,
corn, chicken |
No |
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by-products meal, dried beet pulp (no sugar),
fresh chicken |
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liver, brewer's dried yeast, cane molasses |
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Eukenuba Adult |
Chicken, chicken by-product meal, corn meal,
ground |
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whole grain sorghum, ground whole grain barley, chicken |
No |
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fat, fish meal, brewer's rice |
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Flint River Ranch |
Chicken meal, whole wheat flour, ground rice, lamb meal, |
Yes |
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poultry fat, ground wheat, flax seed, dried whole egg |
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Flint River Ranch |
Lamb meal, ground whole millet, ground whole rice, |
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Lamb/Millet/Rice |
rice bran, menhaden fish meal, grapeseed oil, flax seed |
Yes |
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meal, lecithin |
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Flint River Ranch |
Trout, potato, course ground millet, herring meal, oatmeal, |
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Trout & Sweet Potato |
sweet potatoes, flax seed, oat bran |
Yes |
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Flint River Ranch |
Chicken meal, whole wheat flour, fresh whole chickens |
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DryWater |
(no by-products), ground rice, rice flour, ground whole wheat, |
Yes |
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rice bran, grape seed oil |
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Iams Adult |
Chicken, corn meal,
ground whole grain sorghum, chicken |
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by-product meal, ground whole grain barley meal,
fish |
No |
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meal, chicken fat, dried beet pulp |
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Kibbles 'N Bits |
Corn, soybean meal, ground wheat,
beef & bone meal, |
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animal fat, (BHA and citric acid used as
preservatives), |
No |
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corn syrup, wheat middlings, water sufficient
for processing |
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Maxxim Performance |
Poultry by-product meal, corn gluten meal, animal fat |
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(Wal-Mart) |
preserved with BHA, brewer's rice, ground yellow corn, |
No |
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ground wheat, beet pulp, dried whole egg |
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Nutra Nuggets |
Lamb meal, brewer's rice,
brown rice, rice flour, turkey |
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(Costco) |
by-product meal, chicken fat (preserved with
mixed |
No |
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tocopherols), wheat flour, beet pulp |
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Pedigree |
Ground yellow corn, meat & bone meal, corn gluten meal, |
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chicken by-product meal, animal fat preserved with |
No |
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BHA/BHT, wheat mill run, natural poultry flavor,
rice, salt |
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ALL PEDIGREE DRY FOODS ARE PRESERVED WITH BHA |
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Pedigree |
Rice, ground corn, chicken by-product meal, corn gluten |
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Puppy |
meal, ground wheat,
animal fat preserved with BHA/BHT, |
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dicalcuim phosphate, dried mild protein |
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ALL PEDIGREE DRY FOODS ARE PRESERVED WITH BHA |
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Purina Beneful |
Ground yellow corn, chicken by-product meal, corn gluten |
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meal, whole wheat flour,
beef tallow, rice
flour, beef soy |
No |
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flour, sugar |
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Purina Puppy Chow |
Corn gluten meal, whole wheat flour,
chicken by-products, |
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Healthy Morsels |
soybean meal, beef tallow, brewer's rice, beef &
bone meal, |
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beef |
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Science Diet |
Brewer's rice, ground wheat, turkey meal,
corn gluten meal, |
No |
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Natures Best Chicken |
soybean meal, animal fat,
chicken, vegetable oil |
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Science Diet |
Chicken, corn meal,
ground grain sorghum,
ground wheat, |
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Original |
chicken by-product meal, brewer's rice, soybean
meal, |
No |
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animal fat preserved with BHA, propyl gallate
and citric acid |
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Meat by-products: Pet grade meat by-products
consist of organs and parts either not desired, |
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or condemned for human consumption. This can include bones, blood,
intestines, lungs, |
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ligaments, heads, feet, and feathers. |
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