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Your Brand of Dog Food |
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Favorable | Life's Abundance | Nutro Natural Choice |
Science Diet Adult Maintenance |
Flint River Oven Baked Puppy/Adult | Purina One Adult Chicken & Rice Formula | Purina Beneful | Iams Adult Lamb Meal & Rice | Eukanuba Adult Maintenance | Alpo |
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Look at the First 3 Ingredients - They Often Make Up the Principal Components of a Food |
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| First
Three Ingredients Corn, wheat, gluten & soy are generally inferior sources of protein. They are often difficult to digest & to use by the body. Also can cause G.I. problems. Meat & bone meal can contain an unknown quantity of bone, which is an inferior protein. |
Chicken Meal (hormone & steriod free) |
Lamb Meal |
Chicken |
Chicken Meal |
Chicken |
Ground Yellow Corn |
Lamb Meal |
Chicken |
Ground Yellow Corn |
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Ground Brown Rice |
Ground Rice |
Corn Meal |
Whole Wheat Flour |
Brewers Rice |
Chicken By-product meal |
Brewers Rice |
Chicken Byproduct Meal |
Beef & Bone Meal |
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Potato Product |
Rice Bran |
Ground Grain Sorghum |
Ground Rice |
Whole Grain Corn |
Corn Gluten Meal |
Corn Meal |
Corn Meal |
Soybean meal |
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| Watch Out for Harmful Chemicals & Unsavory Byproducts | ||||||||||
| Preservatives Can be very harmful |
Mixed Tocopherols |
Mixed Tocopherols |
BHA, BHT |
Mixed Tocopherols |
Mixed Tocopherols |
Mixed Tocopherols |
Mixed Tocopherols |
Mixed Tocopherols |
BHA |
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| By-products Generally inferior sources of protein |
none |
none |
yes |
none |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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| Artificial Dyes Many vets believe they are linked to health problems | none |
none |
none |
none |
none |
Yellow 5, Red 40, Yellow 6, Blue 2 |
none |
none |
Red 40 |
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| Look for Powerful Health Promoting Ingredients | ||||||||||
| Probiotics Good for Digestive & Immune System |
yes |
none |
none |
none |
none |
none |
none |
none |
none |
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| Antioxidants Vital to Good Health (Grapeseed Extract powerful source) |
yes Grapeseed Extract |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
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| Chelated
Minerals Better absorbed |
yes |
none |
none |
yes |
none |
none |
none |
none |
none |
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| Vegetables Excellent Source of Antioxidants & Phytonutrients |
yes |
none |
none |
none |
none |
yes |
none |
none |
none |
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| Food Rating* | 10 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | |
| Cost to Feed and Cost Delivered to Your Door | ||||||||||
| Cost Per Cup Based on the number of Cups in Each Bag |
$0.29 | $0.16 | $0.19 | $0.29** | $0.17 | $0.13 | $0.17 | $0.21 | $0.09 | |
| Daily Feeding
Amount Based on 50 lb dog |
2 cups | 3.5 cups | 3.25 cups | 2.5 cups** | 2.5 cups | 3.33 cups | 2.5 cups | 2 cups | 3.5 cups | |
| Daily Cost to Feed Based on feeding amounts & # of cups/ bag | $0.59 | $0.58 | $0.60 | $0.72** | $0.42 | $0.43 | $0.42 | $0.43 | $0.31 | |
| Total
Cost to Feed + Shipping |
$0.70 | $0.86 | $0.86 | $0.72 | $0.67 | $0.67 | $0.62 | $0.61 | $0.59 | |
| Food Rating* | 10 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | |
| *Rating: Each food starts with 10 points. 1 point is deducted for each unfavorable ingredient or lack of a health-promoting ingredient. | Life's Abundance | Nutro Natural Choice |
Science Diet Adult Maintenance |
Flint River Oven Baked Puppy/Adult | Purina One Adult Chicken & Rice Formula | Purina Beneful | Iams Adult Lamb Meal & Rice | Eukanuba Adult Maintenance | Alpo | |
| * Rating: Each
food starts with 10 points. 1 point is deducted for each
unfavorable ingredient or lack of a health-promoting ingredient. ** Includes shipping and cups to feed 45-55 lb. dog. In most cases, food costs are an average of prices found in local stores and popular Internet sites. Shipping costs are an average of three popular Internet sites. Chart created 2/24/03. |
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