Help with Kibble

[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.