Infiniti
Posted : 4/13/2008 12:11:11 PM
Sam's Club will stock the main brands, such as Purina, but it does carry it's own line called Member's Mark. I believe they have a regular variety and a performance variety. I'd looked into them before out of curiosity, and I found the Exceed Performance variety to be on par with foods like Iams or Eukanuba perhaps (I'm not the greatest at comparison). Here's a breakdown:
"Ingredients:
Chicken, chicken meal (natural source of glucosamine), corn gluten
meal, brewers rice, animal fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols - form
of vitamin E), ground yellow corn, ground wheat, calcium phosphate,
dried beet pulp, dried egg product, brewers dried yeast, animal digest,
salt, potassium chloride, calcium carbonate, L-lysine
monohydrochloride, choline cholride, zinc sulfate, vitamin E
supplement, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), ferrous
sulfate, manganese sulfate, niacin, vitamine A supplement, calcium
pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, copper sulfate, riboflavin
supplement, vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, garlic
oil, folic acid, vitamin D3 supplement, calcium iodate, biotin,
menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of vitamin K activity),
sodium selenite.
Guaranteed analysis
Crude protein 30% min
Crude fat 20% min
Moisture 12% max
Crude fibre 4% max
Linoleic acid 1.6% min
Calcium 1.3% min
Phosphorus 1% min
Zinc 100mg/kg
Selenium 0.3 mg/kg
Vitamin A 12,000 IU/kg min
Vitamin E 100 IU/kg min
Ascorbic Acid * 70mg/kg min
Glucosamine* 350ppm
* Not recognised as an essential nutrient by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles
Animal
feeding tests using Association of American Feed Control Officials
(AAFCO) procedures substantiate that Member's Mark EXCEED Performance
Chicken & Rice Formula provides complete and balanced nutrition for
all life stages." - Taken from Dogfoodanalysis.com
You can see it's not bad, just not fantastic either. Decent protein source, but a few controversial fillers. If you're feeding Apollo Canidae right now, I'd probably stick with it, but it's completely up to you. I will say that I loooove Sam's Club though. It's addicting, I always buy more than I need!