Eukanuba Adult Maintenance Weight Control Dog Food
January 9, 2009
Filed under Dog Food Reviews, Eukanuba
Eukanuba Adult Maintenance Weight Control Dog Food
Eukanuba dog food is made and manufactured by, Procter and Gamble. Eukanuba dog food comes in many different formulas.
Eukanuba Adult Maintenance Weight Control Dog Food Review
As with all dog food recipes the first thing we are going to look at are the first five ingredients. The first five ingredients are a good indication of the quality of the dog food. When looking at the first five ingredients you want to make sure there is plenty of meat and grains are minimal.
Eukanuba Adult Maintenance Weight Control Dog Food First Five Ingredients:
- Corn Meal
- Chicken
- Chicken By-Products
- Ground Whole Grain Sorghum
- Fish Meal
Corn Meal is the first ingredient. Some believe that’s dog’s digestive systems have a hard time digesting this ingredient. Corn in excess has also been linked to many cases of dog allergies.
Chicken is the second ingredient in this recipe. This ingredient is inclusive of its water content. Meaning that once the water is removed and this ingredients becomes a dried ingredient it will weigh significantly less, thus making it fall further in the ingredients list.
Chicken By-Products are the third ingredient. This ingredient is impossible to determine the actual quality of. The AAFCO definition of chicken by-product meal is “a meal consisting of the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts as might occur unavoidable in good processing practice.”
Sorghum, the fourth ingredient is of lower quality and is primarily a filler that offers an additional source of carbohydrates.
Fish Meal is the fifth ingredient and is a named meat ingredient. A dog’s diet needs to based on the fact that dogs need meat and protein that derives from meat.
Eukanuba Adult Maintenance Weight Control Dog Food First Full Ingredients:
Corn Meal, Chicken, Chicken By-Product Meal, Ground Whole Grain Sorghum, Fish Meal (source of fish oil), Ground Whole Grain Barley, Dried Beet Pulp (sugar removed), Natural Chicken Flavor, Dried Egg Product, Brewers Dried Yeast, Potassium Chloride, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Calcium Carbonate, Salt, Flax Meal, Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Vitamins [Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin A Acetate, Ascorbic Acid, Beta-Carotene, Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin, Thiamine Mononitrate (source of Vitamin B1), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Niacin, Riboflavin Supplement (source of Vitamin B2), Inositol, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of Vitamin B6), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid], DL-Methionine, Minerals [Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Potassium Iodide, Cobalt Carbonate], Choline Chloride, Dicalcium Phosphate, L-Carnitine, Rosemary Extract…
Eukanuba Adult Maintenance Weight Control Dog Food Guaranteed Analysis:
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Review
My Newfie has been on Eukanuba foods all his life (9.5 years) and on weight control for several of these years. I wonder if the recipe has changed since he brought up his first three feeds from the most recent bag and was unenthusiastic about eatind subsequent meals. When mixed with another brand he ate the other brand and tried to leave the Eukanuba behind (successfully). He is now on Iams and seems to be happy with it. Did they increase/change the prebiotics in the formula?
Those 2 brands are 2 of the worst on the market today. Their is no telling how much corn and wheat your really feeding your dog when you feed this crap to your dog. These clown companies care about 1 thing and 1 thing only and that is how much profit they can get from you. They could care less about your dog.