This includes titanium dioxide, a white coloring agent. After all, do you really think your dog cares what color his food is? That’s because coloring is used to make the product more appealing to humans - not your dog. Next, we’re always disappointed to find artificial coloring in any pet food. However, it can still be found in some commercial dog foods. Propylene glycol has been banned by the FDA for use in making cat food. Animal digest is a chemically hydrolyzed mixture of animal by-products that is typically sprayed onto the surface of a dry kibble to improve its taste.įrom here, the list goes on to include a number of other items.īut to be realistic, ingredients located this far down the list (other than nutritional supplements) are not likely to affect the overall rating of this product.įirst, this product contains the controversial food moisturizer, propylene glycol. Water is a routine finding in most canned dog foods. The eighth ingredient is water, which adds nothing but moisture to this food. In reality, wheat middlings are nothing more than milling dust and floor sweepings - and an ingredient more typically associated with lower quality pet foods. Unfortunately, the variations in nutrient content found in wheat middlings can be a critical issue in determining their suitability for use in any dog food - or even livestock feeds. Though it may sound wholesome, wheat mill run is actually an inexpensive by-product of cereal grain processing. The seventh ingredient includes wheat middlings, commonly known as “wheat mill run”. Corn syrup is a glucose-rich, high-calorie item of questionable nutritional value to a dog. What’s worse, this fat is preserved with BHA, a suspected cancer-causing agent. Since there’s no mention of a specific animal, this item could come from just about anywhere: salvaged roadkill, spoiled supermarket meat… even dead, diseased or dying cattle.įor this reason, we do not consider generic animal fat a quality ingredient. Animal fat is a generic by-product of rendering, the same high-temperature process used to make meat meals. Wheat is another cereal grain and subject to the same issues as corn (previously discussed). In any case, beef and bone meal is not considered a better quality dog food ingredient. On the brighter side, beef and bone meals are meat concentrates and contain nearly 300% more protein than fresh meat. Scientists believe this decreased protein quality may be due to the ingredient’s higher ash and lower essential amino acid content. 1īeef and bone meal may have a lower biological value than most other meat meals. The third ingredient includes an item called beef and bone meal, a dry rendered product from (beef) tissues, including bone, exclusive of blood, hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure, stomach and rumen contents”. The second ingredient is soybean meal, a by-product of soybean oil production more commonly found in farm animal feeds.Īlthough soybean meal contains 48% protein, this ingredient would be expected to have a lower biological value than meat.Īnd less costly plant-based products like this can notably boost the total protein reported on the label - a factor that must be considered when judging the actual meat content of this dog food. And aside from its energy content, this grain is of only modest nutritional value to a dog. Corn is an inexpensive and controversial cereal grain. The first ingredient in this dog food is corn. Red denotes controversial item Estimated Nutrient Content Ingredients: Corn, soybean meal, beef & bone meal, whole wheat, animal fat ( BHA used as preservative), corn syrup, wheat middlings, water sufficient for processing, animal digest (source of chicken flavor), propylene glycol, salt, hydrochloric acid, potassium chloride, peas, caramel color, sorbic acid (used as a preservative), choline chloride, sodium carbonate, minerals (ferrous sulfate, zinc oxide, manganous oxide, copper sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite), vitamins (vitamin E supplement, niacin, d-calcium pantothenate, vitamin A supplement, riboflavin supplement, thiamine mononitrate, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin B12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, biotin), dl-methionine, calcium sulfate, carrots, green beans, wheat flour, titanium dioxide (color), yellow 5, yellow 6, red 40, BHA (used as a preservative), blue 1įiber (estimated dry matter content) = 4.9%
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