Nature's Recipe Grain Free - New Food

[chowder]

I just saw in this weekends Petsmart ad that Natures's Recipe has come out with two Grain Free formulas. Salmon with sweet potato and pumpkin, and Chicken with sweet potato and pumpkin. I went to their website but they have no mention of it and I did an internet search but I can't find any mention of it anywhere so I can't post a list of ingredients.

Just thought it was interesting that a company like Natures Recipe has come out with a grain free formula now. If I get to Petsmart anytime soon, I'll look it up and post the full list of ingredients. If anyone else can find them, it would be interesting to know what is in it since it is a mainstream food.

[kevin bradley]

good to see Petsmart coming out w/ something for their shoppers.

Last time I was in a Petsmart, I just walked away shaking my head...all the glitz and glamour of hollywood marketing and maybe one food in the entire building I would have put in my Dogs dish(I think it was Blue Buffalo)....literally almost nothing worth more than Wal Mart offers.

[ann g]

good to see Petsmart coming out w/ something for their shoppers.

Last time I was in a Petsmart, I just walked away shaking my head...all the glitz and glamour of hollywood marketing and maybe one food in the entire building I would have put in my Dogs dish(I think it was Blue Buffalo)....literally almost nothing worth more than Wal Mart offers.

Your right, they are now selling Wellness, but that and BB are the only ones worth feeding. Whenever I go there, I just want to stop everyone and ask why they feeding such crap to their animals. I say, support you local independent pet stores.

[kevin bradley]

Your right, they are now selling Wellness, but that and BB are the only ones worth feeding. Whenever I go there, I just want to stop everyone and ask why they feeding such crap to their animals. I say, support you local independent pet stores.

Ann, I don't even think the Petsmart I was in(this was about a year ago) had any Wellness. And I do actually like the Wellness line and company. Like I said, I honestly think the only decent food they carried was Blue Buffalo. Next would be the Nutro line...after that, it was a littany of just pure garbage like Eukanuba, Pedigree....etc...it was literally not much different than Wal Mart.

I actually like our Farm and Tractor stores like TSC better. They carry Blue Buffalo and most of the Diamond line(Taste of the Wild, 4Health, Naturals)...and their sale prices are very reasonable.


So, this move to grain free from NR is a great move. I'd like to see an ingredient list.

[Unosmom]

Isnt Natures Recipe a Hills formula?

I heard that Nutro is getting rid of corn gluten and menadione in their food, not sure when though (not that I'll ever buy it, but at least they're moving in the right direction).

I'm glad Petsmart has wellness now, too bad they wont be selling core.

[chowder]

Isnt Natures Recipe a Hills formula?

I heard that Nutro is getting rid of corn gluten and menadione in their food, not sure when though (not that I'll ever buy it, but at least they're moving in the right direction).

I'm glad Petsmart has wellness now, too bad they wont be selling core.

Natures Recipe is made by Del Monte Foods. I'm still not sure about the ingredients list for the new grain free but my previous dogs were on the Venison formula for years because of Chelsy and she did okay on it before I started researching food and learned a lot more.

Del Monte: Nature's Recipe

[Jacksons Mom]

That's good! It's a small step, considering that and BB Wilderness are the only grain free foods available in Petsmart (I believe?!) but at least it's a good step. It gives people the chance, who know nothing about pet nutrition, to walk into Petsmart and consider it....

[kjschultz99]

Hi all - I bought Nature's Recipe Grain Free just the other day to try with my Boston Terrier. She came from the breeder on Eukanuba, didn't like her food, had a lot of itching, gas, and was losing weight. I switched to Blue Buffalo which she liked better for awhile, wasn't as itchy, but lost interest again and still had bad gas. Started mixing it with Wellness canned food, which she now eats, but still has the bad gas. So... decided to try a grain free product and picked this up. She really likes it (so far) - will pick it out from the BB, so still mix it with the canned food to keep her eating both for now. Especially since the NR is not puppy food.

Anyway, here is ingredient list - I bought the Chicken variety.

Chicken, sweet potatoes, potatoes, chicken meal, pea protein, poultry fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), apples, pumpkin, chicken digest, tomato pomace, salt, potassium chloride, niacin supplement, vitamin A supplement, D-Calcium pantothenate, thiamin mononitrate, beta-carotene, riboflavin supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, menadione sodium bisulfite complex, vitamin D3 supplement, folic acid, biotin, vitamin b12 supplement, choline chloride, minerals (zinc proteinate, ferrous sulfate, zinc oxide, iron proteinate, copper sulfate, copper proteinate, manganese proteinate, manganous oxide, calcium iodate, sodium selenite), yucca schidigera extract, rosemary extract, citric acid (used as a preservative).

[Unosmom]

nah, too much potato, not enough meat, but I'm not particularly suprised since its Del Monte food.

[kjschultz99]

It's just an ingredient list - which doesn't say anything about how much of each ingredient is in there - just how much as compared to others... Protein is min 27%, the same as Blue Buffalo.