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Posted by Noofies on 3/26/2008, 7:11 pm, in reply to "New Purina dry food - how does it rate?"
But better than a grain as a first ingredient! There's an awful lot of corn, and filler (powdered cellulose, brewers rice, soybean hulls) in this food, and I just can't see how soybean meal is something that should be fed to cats or dogs.
You see where all those advertised vegetables and fruits come on the ingredients list? There's more salt in this food thanspinach, parlsey, cranberries, carrots, or cheese powder.
This food isn't any better, really, than plain old Purina Cat Chow, which is probably the best of the supermarket brands.
Poultry by-product meal, ground yellow corn, wheat flour, corn gluten meal, soybean meal, brewers rice, beef tallow preserved with mixed-tocopherols (source of vitamin E), fish meal, brewers dried yeast, animal digest, phosphoric acid, potassium chloride, calcium carbonate, tetra sodium pyrophosphate, calcium chloride, choline chloride, dicalcium phosphate, salt, taurine, zinc oxide, ferrous sulfate, vitamin supplements (E, A, B-12, D-3), L-Alanine, riboflavin supplement, niacin, calcium pantothenate, manganese sulfate, biotin, thiamine mononitrate, folic acid, pyridoxine hydrochloride, copper sulfate, citric acid, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of vitamin K activity), calcium iodate.
Chicken by-product meal, poultry by-product meal - not a whole lot of difference, really. The Cat Chow has an "identified" source of fat (beef tallow) where the Healthful Life has unidentified fat (animal fat can be fat from ANY animal including, I'm afraid, rendered euthanized pets). The Cat Chow doesn't have artificial colors, the HL does. Great marketing, though, to add "healthful" to the name and sell a poorer quality food for more money!
If I had to choose between the regular Cat Chow and this new Healthful Life, I'd probably go with the Cat Chow! It's a (slightly) better food at a (slightly) lower price-per-pound.
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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