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Purina One Natural Blends
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Anything you can buy at Walmart is junk food. The better quality foods may cost more but in the long run they are worth the $$$. When looking for food you do not want any thing with a lot of grains and no by-products. Do you realize what by-products are? The nasty stuff like beaks, eyes and guts. The better quality food create less stink and less waste. -LB
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I am not impressed with them but that is me..
I have never even heard of it.... but I try to only use Nutro since its much better for them...
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I haven't seen the cat food yet, but I read a few of hte dog food labels. If the quality of the cat food is comparable to the quality of the dog food, I wouldn't bother. It didn't impress me at all, and there's a few ingredients in it that are on my "not acceptable" list.
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The most important information you can get here is: Read the labels. Look for products that contain no by-products and not a lot of grains. Meat should be the main ingredient.
Haven't seen it yet- sounds interesting, though I've heard Purina's "Beneful" dog food isn't that great. I would have to compare it to purina one regular. My kids eat purina one about 1/2 the time and seem to do well with it.
Ingredients:
Chicken, corn gluten meal, poultry by-product meal, oat meal, brown rice, whole grain wheat, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), wheat gluten, whole grain corn, natural flavor, dried beet pulp, calcium phosphate, potassium chloride, phosphoric acid, calcium carbonate, canola oil, soybean oil, salt, choline chloride, malted barley flour, dried cranberries, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, taurine, zinc sulfate, Vitamin E supplement, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, niacin, Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate (Vitamin B-1), copper sulfate, riboflavin supplement (Vitamin B-2), Vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, calcium iodate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), sodium selenite.
Problems:
1. More grain than chicken. Chicken is the #1 ingredient but that doesn't mean anything because whole chicken is mostly water. In terms of dry weight, there is more grain than meat.
2. Corn gluten meal. This is processed corn that's being used as a protein source. Corn is an inappropriate protein source for a carnivore.
3. Poultry by-products. Unidentified random parts of birds that aren't even identified by species - yuck.
4. Animal fat. What animal did it come from?
It sounds like Purina's best offering to date, but foods like Chicken Soup or Felidae would be far, far better quality and comparably or lower priced.
Chicken, corn gluten meal, poultry by-product meal, oat meal, brown rice, whole grain wheat, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), wheat gluten, whole grain corn, natural flavor, dried beet pulp, calcium phosphate, potassium chloride, phosphoric acid, calcium carbonate, canola oil, soybean oil, salt, choline chloride, malted barley flour, dried cranberries, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, taurine, zinc sulfate, Vitamin E supplement, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, niacin, Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate (Vitamin B-1), copper sulfate, riboflavin supplement (Vitamin B-2), Vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, calcium iodate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), sodium selenite.
Problems:
1. More grain than chicken. Chicken is the #1 ingredient but that doesn't mean anything because whole chicken is mostly water. In terms of dry weight, there is more grain than meat.
2. Corn gluten meal. This is processed corn that's being used as a protein source. Corn is an inappropriate protein source for a carnivore.
3. Poultry by-products. Unidentified random parts of birds that aren't even identified by species - yuck.
4. Animal fat. What animal did it come from?
It sounds like Purina's best offering to date, but foods like Chicken Soup or Felidae would be far, far better quality and comparably or lower priced.
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Purina has formulas better than this in the Pro plan line imhoOriginally Posted by semiferal
Ingredients:
Chicken, corn gluten meal, poultry by-product meal, oat meal, brown rice, whole grain wheat, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), wheat gluten, whole grain corn, natural flavor, dried beet pulp, calcium phosphate, potassium chloride, phosphoric acid, calcium carbonate canola oil[COLOR]], soybean oil, salt, choline chloride, malted barley flour, dried cranberries, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, taurine, zinc sulfate, Vitamin E supplement, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, niacin, Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate (Vitamin B-1), copper sulfate, riboflavin supplement (Vitamin B-2), Vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, calcium iodate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), sodium selenite.
the orange are ones I would try to avoid the yellow is my personal preference
Problems:
1. More grain than chicken. Chicken is the #1 ingredient but that doesn't mean anything because whole chicken is mostly water. In terms of dry weight, there is more grain than meat.well written
2. Corn gluten meal. This is processed corn that's being used as a protein source. Corn is an inappropriate protein source for a carnivore. I will use a formula with it but dont like it being the main source of protein as the chn should be fifth or sixth due to water and fat loss of cooking..
3. Poultry by-products. Unidentified random parts of birds that aren't even identified by species - yuck.
4. Animal fat. What animal did it come from?
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