Ingredients in Ol' Roy Puppy Formula, "Beef Flavored" (only kind I could find the ingredients of)
Ground yellow corn, meat and bone meal, corn gluten meal, soybean meal, animal fat (preserved with BHA and citric acid), chicken by product meal, animal digest (source of beef flavor), brewers rice, salt, caramel color calcium carbonate, potassium chloride, chlorine chloride, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, zinc oxide, vitamin E supplement, niacin, copper sulfate, manganous oxide, vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate, biotin, vitamin B12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamine monontrate, menadione sodium bisulfate complex (source of vitamin K activity), calcium iodate, vitamin D3 supplement, riboflavin supplement, cobalt carbonate, folic acid and sodium selenite.
First, the ingredients highlighed in yellow...
The first ingredients is Ground yellow corn. Corn is believed to be the source of many grain allergies, and is a low quality grain. Since ingredients are weighed and listed from heaviest to lightest, this means that the ingredients that make up most of the product are listed irst, so corn makes up most of the food in regards to each individual ingredient.
Corn appears yet again as Corn Gluten Meal, which is basically what is left after all the nutritiouse parts are removed.
Soybean is another low quality, problomatic grain.
By-product meal usually consist of low quality sources of protein, like heads, feet, bon,...exclusive of feathers for the most part.
Brewers rice is a processed rice product that is missing many of the nutrients contained in whole ground rice and brown rice.
The amount of Salt is pretty high here, and seems to be used as a flavoring.
Any kind of coloring (caramel color here) has no place in a dog food.
This food also contains many oxides and sulfates, which are not harmful but are poorly absorbed and thus mostly useless.
Now everything in red....
This product contains MANY unspecified meat sources (animal digest, meat and bone meal, animal fat) qwhich can be from any animal. This includes dead zoo animals, roadkill, 4D animals (dead, disabled, dieing, dead) and even euthanized cats and dogs. Also, the drug used to put pets to sleep survives the rendering process and makes it into the food, and the tags, collars, and plastic bags on the animals are usually not removed.
BHA has been banned from human use in many countries, and is believed to cause carcinogenic in animals.
Menadione sodium bisulfate complex is a synthetic version of vitamin K and has been linked to many seriouse health issues. Go here for more info on Menadione:
http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?page=menadione
Honestly, this has to be the worst food I have yet seen. Forget Science Diet. This offers little nutritional value at all, and has quite a few ingredients that could be labeled as 'hazordous' |