Purina Pro Plan (Adult Chicken & Rice)
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The thing that aggravates me about this food, which is supposed to be the top of the line food from Purina (and this is the best they can do, despite earning billions of dollars?), is that it’s quite insulting to the people who read the label. How so?? Easy. When’s the last time you heard somebody refer to corn as “maize”?? I’ll bet that most people can get that connection, but some may not. To those who know that maize IS corn, it’s just insulting to our intelligence. To those who don’t, it’s deceptive. Whichever side you’re on, it’s not a great thing for a company to do.
Anyhow, ingredients wise, it starts off strong with chicken and rice, which are good for protein and grain respectively. Then we have corn gluten meal, which is a sin in a pet food. I don’t like “dehydrated poultry protein” because it’s just so vague. It’s obviously more than one bird, but which birds are they?? If they were birds like chickens or turkeys, I’m sure they’d tell us. So does this concern anybody else?? Then we have more corn…wheat….liver “digest”….etc.
I’ve really had a difficult time rating this one. It could be a 2 or 3 star food. Certainly, it’s better than crap like 9 Lives or Meow Mix, which are 1 star foods. But is it as good as Nutro Complete Choice, which is a 3 star?? I just don’t think so, and the added insult of deception on the label doesn’t sit well with me at all. Not only that, but as was mentioned, this was the best Purina thought they could do. Shame.
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What’s good about this food….
Chicken is first, fish oil, whole eggs, rice is main grain.
….and what’s not so good.
Far too much corn, wheat is used.
Ingredients:
Chicken (21%), rice (16%), maize gluten meal, dehydrated poultry protein, maize, wheat, animal fat (protected by mixed tocopherols), liver digest, dried whole egg, fish protein concentrate, yeast, fish oil, potassium chloride, calcium carbonate, choline chloride, minerals, sodium chloride, DL-methionine.
While I stand whole heartedly by your choice to call anything by Purina poor quality, I must say that the anger about their using the proper name for corn gave me quite the laugh. I do hope you will ridicule Blue “Buffalo” for having a “bison” flavor and a picture of a bison on their logo. And not a single actual buffalo product.
That being said, I’ll just sit back and watch those two companies hash it out.
I just switched from the Purina brand dog food, both wet and dry.. I use a mix each day of both.. I decided to try the Actrium brand from walmart, first of all it is very cheap for what seems to be a fairly decent ingredients list.. For wet food i went with this Pura Balance stuff also from Wal Mart, now i am not a wal mart fan and am still kind of suspect about both these foods really as they are both very affordable.. I used to pay around $17 for a 8kg bag of the purina, the actrium was like $15 for a 7kg bag.. Yet the actrium doesn’t seem to use corn at all i don’t believe, and they have a huge list of fruits and veggies.. The Pure Balance wet food seems fairly good as well, they claim all natural ingredients with fruit and veggies, depending on which variety you get, the chicken veggie and brown rice (all one variety) seems like good stuff.. Anyhow, for the last two days my dog has ate every little bit of this food and even lickled the bowl clean tonight, something he never does with the purina, which he hardly even finishes half tyhe time… Anyways, i really hope that actrium is solid stuff, really affordable if it is.. I just can’t afford to start paying $80 a god for 2kg bags like they want for some of the expensive brands..