Purina Mainstay?

[Vela]

Mainstay Brand
Ground Yellow Corn
Corn Gluten Feed Corn
Beef And Bone Meal
Soybean Meal
Ground Rice Hulls
Protein = 16%
Fat = 6%
Fiber = 8%
Moisture = 12%

Ground yellow corn...no need to explain why that's bad as a first ingredient.

Corn gluten feed is a byproduct of the wet milling process. Wet milling separates the corn kernel into starch, oil, protein, and bran. First, the corn is soaked in sulfurous acid. The resulting steep liquor contains protein, minerals, vitamins and energy sources. The starch and oil are extracted from the swollen kernel. The remaining fiber or bran is mixed with the steep liquor. This product, wet corn gluten feed, contains about 40 percent dry matter. The wet corn gluten feed can be dried to about 90 percent dry matter and is called...Dry Corn Gluten Feed!

Corn gluten feed should not be confused with corn gluten meal. Corn gluten meal has 2 times the protein content of corn gluten feed. Also the protein in corn gluten feed is degraded relatively rapidly in the rumen versus the protein of corn gluten meal is degraded relatively slowly (more by-pass potential).

Soybean meal is the product remaining after extracting most of the oil from whole soybeans. The oil may be removed by solvent extraction or by an expeller process in which the beans are heated and squeezed.

ugh about ground rice hulls
http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_...Rec_Id=PC33127

and more about what rice hulls are used for...growing plants...after parboiling.

Fresh rice hulls have typically not been used as a horticultural substrate component because of weed seed and the potential for nitrogen tie-up in the substrate. However, we have demonstrated that parboiled fresh rice hulls are free of viable weed seed and do not cause nitrogen tie-up in the substrate. Parboiled fresh rice hulls have a higher total pore space and a higher air-filled pore space than horticultural perlite (8mm), and we have demonstrated that parboiled fresh rice hulls can be effectively used as a lower-cost alternative to perlite in horticultural substrates. We are currently conducting research to develop a replacement for Sphagnum peat from waste rice hulls.



Not picking on you Briana, just putting the info up there for any who might wonder. Irescue, are you sure this is the same food? I'm sorry but if so I just can't see how it could be good.

[Roxyluvsme13]

Mainstay Brand
Ground Yellow Corn
Corn Gluten Feed Corn
Beef And Bone Meal
Soybean Meal
Ground Rice Hulls
Protein = 16%
Fat = 6%
Fiber = 8%
Moisture = 12%

Ground yellow corn...no need to explain why that's bad as a first ingredient.

Corn gluten feed is a byproduct of the wet milling process. Wet milling separates the corn kernel into starch, oil, protein, and bran. First, the corn is soaked in sulfurous acid. The resulting steep liquor contains protein, minerals, vitamins and energy sources. The starch and oil are extracted from the swollen kernel. The remaining fiber or bran is mixed with the steep liquor. This product, wet corn gluten feed, contains about 40 percent dry matter. The wet corn gluten feed can be dried to about 90 percent dry matter and is called...Dry Corn Gluten Feed!

Corn gluten feed should not be confused with corn gluten meal. Corn gluten meal has 2 times the protein content of corn gluten feed. Also the protein in corn gluten feed is degraded relatively rapidly in the rumen versus the protein of corn gluten meal is degraded relatively slowly (more by-pass potential).

Soybean meal is the product remaining after extracting most of the oil from whole soybeans. The oil may be removed by solvent extraction or by an expeller process in which the beans are heated and squeezed.

ugh about ground rice hulls
http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_...Rec_Id=PC33127

and more about what rice hulls are used for...growing plants...after parboiling.

Fresh rice hulls have typically not been used as a horticultural substrate component because of weed seed and the potential for nitrogen tie-up in the substrate. However, we have demonstrated that parboiled fresh rice hulls are free of viable weed seed and do not cause nitrogen tie-up in the substrate. Parboiled fresh rice hulls have a higher total pore space and a higher air-filled pore space than horticultural perlite (8mm), and we have demonstrated that parboiled fresh rice hulls can be effectively used as a lower-cost alternative to perlite in horticultural substrates. We are currently conducting research to develop a replacement for Sphagnum peat from waste rice hulls.



Not picking on you Briana, just putting the info up there for any who might wonder. Irescue, are you sure this is the same food? I'm sorry bit if so I just can't see how it could be good.

[Vela]

Well at least you can say you have learned a lot about different foods and can make better decisions on food when you are grown up and have a say in it. That's much better than continuing to think those types of foods are good for your future pets and continue to feed them. Hopefully soon you can get her something else, but I'm sure you'll try to do the best you can. We don't always get to choose how things get done when we aren't the ones in charge.