How easy is it for people to tell what the worst brands are? Unfortunately, it’s not very easy at all. Most of the ingredients just look modified to comply with a dog’s digestive tract but the truth is the ingredients are terrible. So what are some of the less desirable ingredients in consumer dog food? Before we get to the list I just wanted to point out that ingredients on dog food labels are listed by the most prominent to the least prominent, just like regular food labels.
Meat By-Products
All of the major and even some of the lesser known dog foods contain this and no matter what the flavor they’re in the worst dog food brands out there. So what are meat by-products? In a nutshell these are the parts of an animal that are not fit for human consumption including bones, blood, intestines, the head, the lungs and even feathers in the case of a chicken.
Corn
Corn is cheap and available in massive quantities so it should come as no surprise that it’s in dog food. What makes it an ingredient in all the worst brands of dog food is dogs have a very hard time digesting corn products. Another hard to digest ingredient is meat and bone meal or beef and bone meal.
Animal Fat
This is just a generic fat source that is primarily grease. For humans using an animal fat would be like frying everything bacon fat or the stuff that restaurants discard at the end of the night. Please note that if you see a named fat (like chicken fat) than it is ok.
Sweeteners
Dogs can be diabetic as well. The sweeteners in pet foods are no different than human foods but they also have the same consequences.
Food for dogs that is fit for human consumption is the best food you can buy. Another alternative would be to make your own.
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