Food Gurus...input por favor?

Looks nice but I don't like "oat fiber" and "brown rice flour" - I'd rather see the whole grain then parts .... just a leftover fear after the whole "rice protein concentrate" mess.       I have to admit - this looks like a really nice food and I might be tempted to buy it myself --- as soon as I get over my leftover fears.

I don't like potato starch, oat fiber, guar gum...what the heck is that??, brown rice flour and some of the stuff I've never heard of and can't pronounce....it has sea salt and sodium phosphate, so might have more sodium than necessary.  COBALT whatever??

Yeah, I'm over picky.  I'd feed this on a limited basis.

  It looks good, although I prefer to see the meat listed before the liquid in a canned food. I don't see anything wrong with oat fiber; I feed Jessie a canned food with beet pulp and she has great stools; that's probably what the oat fiber is for. Guar gum is a thickener similar to corn starch, so nothing wrong with that.

OK, I'll take back my objection to that.  I just hate stuff that I can't identify on a label.

And, I do agree, I'd rather see meat first and the liquid second.

glenmar

COBALT whatever??

Cobalt proteinate is a common ingredient in vitamin premixes. I think I've read that you feed Innova and Blue Buffalo?? They both have it.

Blue Buffalo's site calls it "a potent antioxidant that helps to thin the blood, strengthen the heart and maintain good circulation. It contains a natural antibiotic and antiseptic called allicin and is also known to help fight cancer"

This food looks good to me, what is it? 

It's Drs Foster/Smith canned stuff. They had it cheap so I bought some. I looked up Innova cans and it's about identical, with broth swapping places...but this is a topper not a staple of the diet so I think it will be fine. Thank you all.

Thanks for that info.  That more or less makes my point though.....that I hate ingredients that I don't know what they are and can't pronounce.  Now I feel like a dummy.

I've looked at FS foods a bit Gina and thought that they didn't look half bad at all.  I wonder who actually produces the food for them?  Does it say anywhere?

Glenda, when you look at vitamins on a food, look for "chelated" versions of these minerals.  It's one of the first things I look to when trying to auger the quality of a particular food.  http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?page=mineral   If the minerals are not in a digestible form, then I'm wasting my money on dried up unbalanced grain and meat in a bag.

I'm not a big fan of the rice flour and potato starch, though they are not terrible.  I wouldn't pay super premium prices for such a food - it's why I stopped buying Innova cans when other companies went to a more meat-based paradigm for their cans for about the same price.

But, a deal's a deal -    Hey, I'm using Pedigree Puppy as a topper right now because I got a can't-lose deal on it and it's not too awful.

I know that the chelated minerals are in some way bonded with amino acids....and by being so bonded that they are "useable" to the animals, do I get points for that?

sulking back to the non-guru corner now.....

Gizmo83036

It contains a natural antibiotic and antiseptic called allicin and is also known to help fight cancer"

I've been watching too much food network LOL - found out last night that allicin is the compound thats in raw garlic - its released when garlic is crushed.  Its also the "active" part of Garlique pills.

glenmar

I've looked at FS foods a bit Gina and thought that they didn't look half bad at all.  I wonder who actually produces the food for them?  Does it say anywhere?

This person's website has the WDJ list for 2007...they list the plant locale for FS there. Scroll down they're in alpha order. I dunno if that's just the dry, or both or what tho.

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Looks tasty. I'd use it, if my dog's name weren't Emma, LOL.. I'd have given it to Teenie, no problem.