why not nutro ultra??

I fed it until I found out that the place they get their fish from puts ethoxyquin in it before shipping.  I switched to Canidae the day after I found out.  >O_o;<

A friend recommended I use Nutro Ultra Lamb & Rice (she's used it for years and likes it) so I did for a little while. But then after reading the dog food project site, all about ingredients and what they are, what they mean, etc...I switched to Eagle Pack b/c nutritionally it was better for my dog. After switching to EP and having something to compare Nutro to, I saw that with Nutro her stools were more frequent, larger, smellier and softer (maybe b/c I needed to feed her twice as much Nutro per pkg. directions). When eating EP her stools are smaller, firmer, less smelly and she doesn't go as many times per day. I also feed her half as much food and am giving her better nutrition via better ingredients. Her coat, muscle tone and energy level have all improved noticably since being on EP.

That is why I no longer use Nutro Ultra.

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it seems expensive compared to what we are feeding now. the food we feed now is about $0.95 per pound. according to the prices on petsmarts web site the nutro nc ultra is about $1.45 per pound. the feeding recommendations are similar to what we feed now. the ingredients seem similar to what we feed now, except for the large breed adult formula (recommended for dogs 50 lbs and up), it has corn gluten meal in it.

i would say for us, price would be the biggest deterrent. not that i dont want my dogs to have the best, but a 50 cents savings for a similar food is a pretty big difference.

per serving it's much more expensive than foods with equivalent or better ingredient lists.  It does have generic poultry fat, never a good thing, and multiple listings of rice products in the first few ingredients, so it's not top-of-the-line stuff. Certainly better than anything else sold in Petsmart.

IMO, I just think it is too overpriced compared to other foods that can offer a lot higher quality ingredients.

Nutro Natural Choice and Natural Choice Ultra do not have any corn product in them, unless they have changed their ingredients in the last month.  Nutro MAX has corn gluten meal in it.

When I looked into feeding Nutro Ultra I found that the price is really high for the quality. Here's the list below and I've highlighted the ingredients that I'm not crazy about. It's definitely the best of the 3 Nutro varieties, but there are a lot of better foods for the same price IMO.

Ingredients

Chicken Meal, Whole Brown Rice, Ground Rice, Lamb Meal, Rice Bran, Sunflower Oil (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Poultry Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Salmon Meal, Flaxseed, Natural Flavors, Oatmeal, Suncured Alfalfa Meal, Dried Plain Beet Pulp, Tomato Pomace, Cranberry Powder, Fish Oil (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Potassium Chloride, Dried Egg Product, L-Lysine, Dried Kelp Meal, Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Sulfate, Choline Chloride, Taurine, Dried Bacillus licheniformis Fermentation Extract, Dried Bacillus subtilis Fermentation Extract, Zinc Proteinate, Ferrous Sulfate, Biotin, L-Carnitine, Ascorbic Acid (source of Vitamin C), Manganese Proteinate, Manganous Oxide, Niacin, Garlic, Calcium Iodate, Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement (source of Vitamin B2), Vitamin A Supplement, Copper Sulfate, Thiamine Mononitrate (source of Vitamin B1), Copper Proteinate, Sodium Selenite, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of vitamin B6), Beta-Carotene, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (source of Vitamin K activity), Folic Acid.

Yeah I can see how it is overpriced. I just thought maybe it would be good to rotate my dog's food with, but maybe not.

ORIGINAL: astaracheetah

Nutro Natural Choice and Natural Choice Ultra do not have any corn product in them, unless they have changed their ingredients in the last month.  Nutro MAX has corn gluten meal in it.

according to their site the large breed adult formula and large breed puppy formula has corn gluten meal in it. the other formulas do not.

http://www.ultraholistic.com/lbadult.shtml
http://www.ultraholistic.com/lbpup.shtml

and i only checked the dry kibble, the canned maybe different.

i also checked the natural choice products dry kibble and almost all (not all, but almost all) the large breed formulas (puppy and adult) have corn gluten meal in them as well.

http://www.nutroproducts.com/naturalchoicedog.asp