Natural Ultramix

    • Gold Top Dog

    Natural Ultramix

    Well Petco hadn't sold Solid Gold Puppy in over a week and after 3 days of chicken and carrots, I gave up and got a puppy brand callrd Natural Ultramix. It looks good to me and Maisie loves it. It looks like it was dried banannas and carrots and all sorts of stuff in it (not mixed in with the kibble.)

    Here are the ingredients:
    Chicken, Turkey, Chicken Meal, Brewers Rice, Ground Whole Grain Barley, Oats Groats, Menhaden Fish Meal, Turkey Meal, Potatoes, Chicken Fat preserved with Mixed Tocopherols (form of vitamin E), Rice Protein Concentrate, Dried Beet Pulp, Fruit and Vegetable Mix (Dried Carrots, Dried Bananas, Dried Papaya, Dried Apples, Dried Blueberries), Ground Flaxseed, Natural Chicken Flavor, Salmon Meal, Potassium Chloride, Salt, Brewers Dried Yeast, Choline Chloride, Dried Egg Product. Ascorbyl-2 Polyphosphate (source of Vitamin C). Zinc Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Maganese Proteinate, Vitamin E Supplement, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Niacin, Vitamin A Supplement. Calcium Pantothenate, Manganous Oxide, Thiamine Mononitrate (source of Vitamin B1). Riboflavin Supplement (source of Vitamin B2), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of Vitamin B6), Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin K1 Supplement, Sodium Selenite, Folic Acid, Calcium Iodate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Cobalt Carbonate, Yeast Culture (Saccharomyes Cerevisiae). Dried Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacilus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dried Aspergilus Niger Fermentaion Extract, Dried Trichoderma Longibrachiatum Fermentation Extract, Dried Bacillus Subtilis Fermentation Extract and Fermentation Solubles.

    What do ya'll think?

    Thanks
    • Gold Top Dog
    Yummy! I've never seen that one. It sounds pretty good, to me. Somebody's going to not like the oat groats and brewer's rice.... They're grain fragments. It also has menadione, which some folks won't feed.

    My dogs wouldn't be able to eat it, but if I had a healthy, non-allergic dog, and it was available, I'd probably use it, at least part time.
    • Gold Top Dog
    What's the protein and fat percentage?  I'm just curious cuz it looks like a good food.
    • Gold Top Dog
     The puppy formula is 28% Crude Protein and 13% Crude Fat and the adult is Crude Protein 26%, Crude Fat 14%. They also have a weight mantenience formula...

    Oh and this is what it says about the dried fruits..We simply dry the carrots, bananas, papaya, apples and blueberries and then blend with the Ultramix kibble...Sounds good lol
    • Gold Top Dog
    Try it. It has as much crude protein as T.O.
    It sounds like a decent food and if it's cheaper than some of the pricier ones, and she does good on it, why not?
    • Gold Top Dog
    This food is made by Castor and Pollux, a well-known brand. It is my understanding that Vitamin K1 is the natural form of Vitamin K and not menadione sodium bisulfate which is Vitamin K3. The food looks very good and is probably one of the best at Petco.
    • Gold Top Dog
    ORIGINAL: whatsh0uldmyl0ginbe?

    Oh and this is what it says about the dried fruits..We simply dry the carrots, bananas, papaya, apples and blueberries and then blend with the Ultramix kibble...Sounds good lol



    The fruits and veggies bits are in with the kibbles, not cooked in, just mixed in - right? I just don't know if they're digestible that way... if they aren't beneficial then they only serve to drive the price up. [sm=2cents.gif]
    • Gold Top Dog
    ORIGINAL: sooner

    ORIGINAL: whatsh0uldmyl0ginbe?

    Oh and this is what it says about the dried fruits..We simply dry the carrots, bananas, papaya, apples and blueberries and then blend with the Ultramix kibble...Sounds good lol



    The fruits and veggies bits are in with the kibbles, not cooked in, just mixed in - right?


    Right--Hmm I thought it was digestible...but I may ne wrong..
    • Gold Top Dog
    Thanks, Mitch. That's good to know.

    I wonder about dehydrated veggies, now.... I suppose that it would depend  on what temperature they're dehydrated at? Maybe they'd have to be rehydrated and smushed? FWIW, I give my dogs dehydrated fruits and veggies, for treats. They LOVE them. It doesn't really matter, in our case, if they get anything out of them or not. They get pureed veggies, with their meals.