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<blockquote data-quote="TexasBred" data-source="post: 1196501" data-attributes="member: 6897"><p>The first five items on a dog food ingredient list are the most important. Dog food manufactures are required by federal law to list all of a product's ingredients in descending order of their pre-cooking weights. That automatically… and mathematically… makes the first few the most abundant items anywhere in a product. Anything beyond these five items with the exception of the necessary vitamins and minerals are little more than "window dressing" along with a fancy package. </p><p></p><p>Since companies rarely divulge the actual amount of each ingredient in a dog food, the consumer is left to try to figure out the proportional break-down for herself.Trying to make heads or tails of a dog food's proportional content is nothing less than a game… a game of odds and probabilities. Look for meat products as the first items. No meat "by-products" or "meat meal". These can be anything. Avoid the grains with the exception of rice (a billion chinese can't be wrong). </p><p></p><p>Contrary to what some may believe there are numerous dog foods which are much more complete diets than straight red meat....higher in protein, more digestible, higher in energy and much more cost effective than even low cuts of meat. BTW...dogs don't like chicken every meal either. ;-)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasBred, post: 1196501, member: 6897"] The first five items on a dog food ingredient list are the most important. Dog food manufactures are required by federal law to list all of a product’s ingredients in descending order of their pre-cooking weights. That automatically… and mathematically… makes the first few the most abundant items anywhere in a product. Anything beyond these five items with the exception of the necessary vitamins and minerals are little more than "window dressing" along with a fancy package. Since companies rarely divulge the actual amount of each ingredient in a dog food, the consumer is left to try to figure out the proportional break-down for herself.Trying to make heads or tails of a dog food’s proportional content is nothing less than a game… a game of odds and probabilities. Look for meat products as the first items. No meat "by-products" or "meat meal". These can be anything. Avoid the grains with the exception of rice (a billion chinese can't be wrong). Contrary to what some may believe there are numerous dog foods which are much more complete diets than straight red meat....higher in protein, more digestible, higher in energy and much more cost effective than even low cuts of meat. BTW...dogs don't like chicken every meal either. ;-) [/QUOTE]
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