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Mixing bowl composition
This is the ingredients list as printed on the packaging or manufacturer's website.
Think of the 'mixing bowl' composition like a recipe - all the ingredients you would need to put in a 'mixing bowl' in order to make the food.
Ingredients have to be listed in descending order of their weight so the higher it appears, the more there is.
Highlighted ingredients
Ingredients that we believe to be controversial or inferior are highlighted in yellow with particularly low grade, highly contentious or excessively vague ingredients in red.
Information in italics is not usually avaialble on the ingredients list but has been provided to us by the manufacturer to help with our ratings.
As fed composition
While the 'mixing bowl' composition is useful for knowing what went into the food, it doesn't always reflect what your dog is actually eating. This is because the processes that turn the ingredients into the finished pet food can significantly alter the relative weights of the ingredients.
For this reason we've calculated the approximate 'as fed' percentages for the main ingredient categories in the finished product.
Please note that these figures are very approximate. They are estimates based on the information provided by the manufacturer in the ingredients list so the clearer the terminology and the more percentages they provide, the more accurate our estimates will be. Wherever information is lacking, we always assume the worst.
Ingredient categories
◉ Meat ingredients: includes all meat and fish ingredients except isolated fats/oils.
◉Added oils and fats: includes all isolated oil and fat ingredients.
◉ Carb-rich ingredients: includes all ingredients derived from grains, pseudo-grains, potatoes and other starchy root vegetables, sweet potato and legumes (except whole peas which are categorised under fruit and veg) except for isolated protein and extracted oils. Also includes fibre supplements.
◉ Fruit and veg: includes all whole vegetables and fruits.
◉ Other: all other ingredients. Mostly made up by nutritional supplements and additives.
For more information on any ingredient, please take a look at our Dog Food Ingredient Glossary
The dry matter level of a nutrient is the percentage there would be in the food if all of the water was removed.
With water taken out of the equation, these figures allow the nutrient levels of foods of different types (like wet and dry) to be compared on an even playing field.
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20 out of 100 - Poor
Our unique product ratings are calculated based on a number of characteristics including the quality and quantity of the stated ingredients, certain nutritional and technological additives and the processing methods used to create the food. They are designed to indicate how beneficial we think a food is likely to be for the majority of dogs when fed on a daily basis for an extended period. Click here for more information
Country of origin: United Kingdom
A technological additive is any substance added to a pet food "for a technological purpose and which favourably affects the characteristics of feed".
The most common categories of technological additives include preservatives and antioxidants, gelling agents and thickeners and probiotics.
While the primary effects of technoloical additives are certainly 'favourable' (increased shelf life in the case of preservatives & antioxidants, better food texture and consistency in the case of gelling agents and thickeners etc.) some have been linked to health problems in pets and should be treated with caution.
Unfortunately, many technological additives do not have to be declared by the manufacturer so just because they do not appear on the label does not necessarily mean they are not in the food. If in doubt, ask the manufacturer directly exactly what technological additives their foods contain.
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Nora Slope Cahill• 5 years ago
This food has sent my dog bonkers. He is drinking water like it's going out of fashion. He is barking at the moon and his poo is not normal 😩😩😩
Paul• 6 years ago
The ingredients are awful, why would people feed this to their dog?
Eddie Miller• 6 years ago
I don't understand why this food is rated so poorly. My cocker seems to love it (but she's a cocker and will eat anything)
Paul
Eddie Miller• 6 years ago
Have you read the ingredients Eddie?
Dogs are all
Eddie Miller• a year ago
im sure my dogs would love it to but unfortunatly its closer to vegan food than dog food due to the lack of meat
Ian Jardine• 8 years ago
Hello. I wish to feed my dog with food I have made up myself ( Just for a trail period of 2 mths ) Made up with fresh white fish / chicken and either rice, pasta or cooked potato mixed with carrots , peas, broccoli. All together weighing out to 200-220 gramms each portion. I would like to know is what brand of biscuit can I use as a filler?
My dog is a working feild spanial
He is 6yrs old
Has been diagnosed with colitus ( on tinned food )
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Ian Jardine• 8 years ago
Hi Ian. Apologies for the slow reply. The proposed diet looks very good. A couple of suggestions - brown rice or oats would be infinitely better than white rice but either way, make sure any grains are very well cooked. Sweet potato would also be much better than white potato and pasta, since it is based on wheat, is often best avoided. With home cooking, the key is variety as that is the only way to ensure nothing is missing from the diet.If you head over to our Dog Food Directory and select 'mixer biscuits' in the filters panel on the left, your get a list of products that should fit the bill. They'll be ranked in order of their rating, so the nearer the top, the better we would expect them to be for your dog. Hope that helps. Please let us know how you get on.http://www.allaboutdogfood....
Paul
Ian Jardine• 6 years ago
Have you considered feed raw Ian? Why do you want to add biscuits?
Michael Taylor• 8 years ago
Hi kedecama, I think it may be a 'bone' shaped kibble that contains min 4% rice.
kedecama• 8 years ago
Can you explain to the not so informed what 4% rice in dog bone means please?
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kedecama• 8 years ago
Hi Kedecama and apologies for the slow reply. Exactly as Michael said, it means that rice makes up 4% of the bone shaped biscuit in the same way that the '4% chicken' is only in the brown biscuit and the '4% peas' is only in the red one. Since each colour of biscuit probably only makes up fifth of the food as a whole, this leaves a huge amount of the formula unaccounted for.