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Dog Food: Understanding Ingredients
A dog food meets with a specific, high quality ingredient base that provides a high level of optimum nutrition for your pet. Some dog food manufacturers substitute the quality for quantity. They opt for the cheap alternative and the greater price tag goes along with the purchase of premium dog food. They do this because it is more convenient to purchase your dog's food as your buying your own groceries. So purchasing your dog's food at the grocery store just makes sense right? Then you are wrong!
For those of you that are unaware about Alpo, Alpo is a pet food manufacturer. They sell the pet food all over the world. Being a reputable company, for the trained eye one would think that Alpo would actually care about the pets that eat the food that they produce but it is not the case. It is just like a day old glass of milk left out in the sun. The ingredients are of a low quality making it a terrible choice of food for your dog.
Usually on a dog food label, the ingredients are listed from greatest to least. First of all the protein source is cheap and of a very low quality. In this case, we have corn as the first listed ingredient, with chicken by-product, poultry by-product, animal fat, and finally lamb meal.
The protein source listed first will have a good quality dog food, as this is the highest nutritional component to any dog food. However, the lamb meal which is the only high quality ingredient on the above list is fifth on the list. The fact that there are multiple animal by-products on the list at all tells us that Alpo is using the cheapest protein source that they can find.
Even worst is the fact that these by-products are listed within the top five ingredients, as these ingredient positions carry a lot of weight in the overall make up of the food.
Alpo makes millions of dollars in profit yearly by creating and selling cheap products. This company is just in the game for the gain and you should never stoop to their level and purchase their food for your beloved dog.
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