Beef"N"More

I finally found information about this food. 
 
[linkhttp://www.beefnmore.com/dry.htm]http://www.beefnmore.com/dry.htm[/link]
 
Whad'ya think?  I think that it has a lot of corn and wheat products in it, but beyond that, I'm not as good at nutrition as a lot of your are.
 
This is about a person who wants to adopt a dog.  This is what she feeds her others.

Fresh beef, ground yellow corn, soybean meal, corn gluten meal, wheat middling's, ground wheat, beef tallow, cooked bone meal, beef trachea (natural source of chondroitin sulfate and glucosamine hydrochloride), flaxseed, natural flavor, calcium carbonate, salt, yeast culture, dicalcium phosphate, fish meal, distillers dried grains, dried whey, choline chloride, zinc proteinate, dl-alpha tocopherol (vitamin E), manganese proteinate, iron proteinate, copper proteinate, vitamin B12 supplement, calcium pantothenate, vitamin A supplement, niacin, lecithin, D-activated animal sterol (source of vitamin D3), riboflavin, biotin, ethylenediamine dihydriodide, cobalt proteinate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, thiamine mononitrate, cobalt carbonate, sodium selenite.
 
Well, the FIRST ingredient is good.  But remember, ingredients are listed by pre-processing weight so this product is mostly corn and substitute protein sources.  It's certainly better than some of the stuff out there, but sure isn't anything that I would feed.

I dont like the ingredients at all, it has too much grains, and when they say "Fresh beef" instead of beef meal, the 'beef' is usually the least that is in the food after the moisture has been removed. Lots of Corn also, and cooked bone meal, well that can mean goat bone meal, horse bone meal, dog bone meal etc.
 
I think Kirkland from Costco would be better if she is buying the foods in bluck. The Lamb and Rice formula doesnt contain by-products

Fresh beef, ground yellow corn, soybean meal, corn gluten meal, wheat middling's, ground wheat, beef tallow, cooked bone meal, beef trachea (natural source of chondroitin sulfate and glucosamine hydrochloride), flaxseed, natural flavor, calcium carbonate, salt, yeast culture, dicalcium phosphate, fish meal, distillers dried grains, dried whey, choline chloride, zinc proteinate, dl-alpha tocopherol (vitamin E), manganese proteinate, iron proteinate, copper proteinate, vitamin B12 supplement, calcium pantothenate, vitamin A supplement, niacin, lecithin, D-activated animal sterol (source of vitamin D3), riboflavin, biotin, ethylenediamine dihydriodide, cobalt proteinate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, thiamine mononitrate, cobalt carbonate, sodium selenite.

Someone posted about their canned, recently. It looked decent. The dry looks gross.

It is made by Merrick, FWIW.

[sm=uhoh.gif] Ewwww...[:'(]

http://forum.dog.com/asp/tm.asp?m=128033&mpage=1&key=💗

There wasn't much said, on the other thread.

Below the grain ingredients are in red and the other ingredients that I'd never feed are in orange.
 

Fresh beef, ground yellow corn, soybean meal, corn gluten meal, wheat middling's, ground wheat, beef tallow, cooked bone meal, beef trachea (natural source of chondroitin sulfate and glucosamine hydrochloride), flaxseed, natural flavor, calcium carbonate, salt, yeast culture, dicalcium phosphate, fish meal, distillers dried grains, dried whey, choline chloride, zinc proteinate, dl-alpha tocopherol (vitamin E), manganese proteinate, iron proteinate, copper proteinate, vitamin B12 supplement, calcium pantothenate, vitamin A supplement, niacin, lecithin, D-activated animal sterol (source of vitamin D3), riboflavin, biotin, ethylenediamine dihydriodide, cobalt proteinate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, thiamine mononitrate, cobalt carbonate, sodium selenite.

 
Basically, the food is the same quality as Pedigree or Dog Chow. [:-]

I don't know, me, I'd be more worried about if there was ethoxyquin in the fish meal than anything else that's been pointed out.

I noticed also that the canned food looked pretty good.  These people buy the food in bulk from, Sam's Club.  I guess it isn't the worse that you can feed your dog, but not the definately not great.

Of course, there is only one way to tell how your dog will do on a food, if it is convenient to buy, reasonably priced and your dog likes it, it's worth a try.