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Choosing healthy pet food is fundamentally about ensuring the diet is "Complete and Balanced" for your pet's specific needs. Many known pet food brands add junk into their foods, like non-nutritional ingredients. Check out the chart below to see the do’s and dont’s and keep your pets happy and healthy.
| | What They Need | What They Dont Need |
|---|---|---|
| Meat | Know where the meat is coming from. Look for specific named meat sources such as beef, chicken, lamb, duck, rabbit. pork, etc. | Mystery Meat sources listed as just Meat, 'Meat meal or just Poultry (as opposed to chicken or turkey). Non-specific sources. |
| Protein | Fresh identifiable meats and identitiable meat meals are the best source or protein. Chicken, chicken meal, chicken liver, etc. Meal is the meat with the moisture removed, like a meat concentrate. It sounds strange but it's actually a great way to get more meat protein by weight into pet food. | Low quality proteins such as corn, wheat, soy, and mystery mea meals like "by-product meal, poultry meal and even "bone meal". Unidentifiable sources such as liver, "poultry, and even just meat appears on some food labels. |
| By-Products | A great pet food will never contain any by-products. Only fresh identifiabld meats, identifiable meat meals, fruits, veggies, vitamins & minerals. | Anything listed as a 'by-product should be avoided. These are low-quality, low-cost ingredients often comprised of hooves beaks, feathers, plastics, and anything else humans would not consume or can be sold in a grocery store |
| Fillers | A nutritionally sound food will never contain fillers | corn, hulls, ond powdered cellulose laka powdered wood a plant fiber) are only a few ingredients that fill' up the bag |
| Carbohydrates | Whole grains, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, peas, garbanzo beans/chick CARBOHYDRATES peas, complex carbohydrates, and aven tapioca is a groat starch option. Whole foods like pet sate truits and vegetables. | Highly processod sources like wheat, rice flour, corn flour, brewer's rice, wheat mill, rice bran, corn bran |
| Fats | Identifiable fat sources such as chicken fat. Other good sources include flaxseed oil, 'sunflower oil' and 'canola oir. | Unidentrable sources like animal or poultry tal |
| Preservatives | Foods preserved with mixed tocopherols (vitamin E), ascorbic acid (vitamin C). | Very commonly used are DHA, BHT. Ethoxyquin. All of which are chemically produced and extremely harsh on the body and are linked to cancer and organ failure. |
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