Help with Kibble

[Flatcoatluver]

Okay, so chicken happens to be the first ingredient. However, corn meal and ground whole grain sorghum (used to make alcoholic beverages) follow thereafter. Chances are the quantity of grain products is equal to or even more than the quantity of chicken.

Chicken by-products include feet, necks, blood, and other parts of the animal that are usually deficient in quality and nutrients. When you feed these parts fresh and whole, however, the story is entirely different.

Natural Chicken Flavor - A dog does not need artificial flavoring in his food.

Salt - A dog does not need added salt in his food. You don't see raw feeders seasoning their dog's food with salt or pepper

I also have qualms with dried beet pulp, but that's another controversy in itself. Hope this helps you some!

Thank you so much, that helps me a lot. At the dog kennel I work for almost EVERY DOG OWNER feeds their dogs either Iams or Beniful(sp?). I know Beniful is really bad.

[IRescue452]

What else about Iams... your dog is being subject to a chloride overdose, which could be harmful. By products also includes feces and the litter used on the ground where the chickens were housed. For some reason aafco allows dehydrated garbage (roughage) as an ingredient but labels do not have to include non-digestable roughage, so perhaps Iams uses a lot of this. The grains left over from processing are spent to a point where there is nothing left but empty space. They could leave them out of the recipe altogether and the dog wouldn't lose any nutrients. Dried beet pulp is sugar, so I don't know whats left after they removed it. I'm sure the list goes on.

[Karen]

What else about Iams... your dog is being subject to a chloride overdose, which could be harmful. By products also includes feces and the litter used on the ground where the chickens were housed. For some reason aafco allows dehydrated garbage (roughage) as an ingredient but labels do not have to include non-digestable roughage, so perhaps Iams uses a lot of this. The grains left over from processing are spent to a point where there is nothing left but empty space. They could leave them out of the recipe altogether and the dog wouldn't lose any nutrients. Dried beet pulp is sugar, so I don't know whats left after they removed it. I'm sure the list goes on.

Dried beet pulp is not sugar - it is what is left after the sugar is extracted. It's just pulp, probably to add the reddish color, and some roughage. Um, and we all do need some roughage in our diet. Helps your digestive tract.

How does Iams subject the dog to "chloride overdose?"

Please don't make blanket statements like that without giving proof.

[buttercup132]

Kay and Giselles list are what Id say. from theres I would pick Solid Gold or Wysong and maybe Natural Balance.

[IRescue452]

Chloride in dog food has recently been discovered to be bad there is not yet going to be a scientific peer-reviewed article on it. Its hard to find "proof" on anything in the dog food business. There's also no peer reviewed article that says raw prey food is best for carnivores, because scientists don't waste their time writing common sense and getting it reviewed, they won't get paid for that. Beet pulp is "the dried residue extracted from the processing of manufactured sugar. It contains pure sucrose, as in common white refined sugar. The fiber content of beet pulp is used as a filler and as a bunder to artificially create better formed stools" I suppose with the sucrose removed its just used to make you think the dog has good stool, therefore healthy.