Innova Adult Dry dog food – Large and Small Bites
November 1, 2008
Filed under Dog Food Reviews, Innova
Innova adult dry dog food
Innova Adult dog food is produced and manufactured by, Natura Pet Products. While not as good as its partner brand EVO, Innova makes a decent dog food. We believe that if there was more meat content in this food it would be a premium brand of dog food.
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Innova Adult Dry dog food first five ingredients:
- Turkey- Turkey is the clean combination of flesh and skin with or without accompanying bone, derived from the parts or whole carcasses of turkey or a combination of thereof – exclusive of feathers, heads, feet, and entrails.
- Chicken- Chicken is the clean combination of flesh and skin with or without accompanying bone, derived from the parts or whole carcasses of chicken – exclusive of feathers, heads, feet, and entrails.
- Chicken Meal- Chicken meal is the dry rendered (cooked down) product from a combination of clean flesh and skin with or without accompanying bone, derived from the parts of whole carcasses of chicken — exclusive of feathers, heads, feet, or entrails.
- Barley-Barley is a major food and animal feed crop, a member of the grass family Poaceae. Ground barley is the entire barley kernel, ground or chopped. Ground Barley is a good quality source of carbohydrates. Because Natura uses the entire barley kernel, it contributes additional protein, barley oil, bran, vitamins and minerals to the diet.
- Brown Rice- The whole rice kernel containing the nutrient-rich bran with only the rice hull removed. Rice bran is rich in numerous nutrients like B-vitamins, magnesium, and fatty acids.
Now at first glance it would appear that this formula of Innova Adult dog food would have sufficient amount of meat. The first two ingredients are inclusive of water. Meaning that once the ingredient is removed of its water content, it will weigh less and fall further down on the ingredients list. Thus making this a little lighter on the meat content than one would be led to believe.
The fourth and fifth ingredients come in the way of grains. Depending on the true weight of the “Turkey” and “Chicken” ingredients these could possibly be the second and third true ingredient, making this a heavy grain food. Rice and Barley are decent quality grains and a good source of carbs.
Other noteable ingredients are herring coming in at the 10th ingredient. This is probably too far down in the ingredients list to provide much more meat content. Innova Adult offers a wide variety of fruits and vegetables and also includes who eggs, which is a great source of protein.
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KC23, why remove the skin ?? Once again I buy my chicken from Costco. Have you ever tried raw chicken necks or backs? I have not, but I know that they are cheap and are really good for them. The backs are full of Glucosamine. I am a little nervous to try with Tony, because he flat out inhales raw stuff. I really am not into giving Tony raw chicken, knowing it comes from those chicken farms. I can’t believe he can even tastes meat.
Hi again. No–I don’t do the raw thing. Nothing against those who do. Our dogs are allowed to get on the furniture/sleep with us, and pretty much do whatever LOL, and I have kids–really don’t want to chance having bacteria all over the house, especially since I plop their food dishes down in our living room at feeding time (just because I have more room to spread the dishes out and feed all 3 dogs at once). I’ve never tried the necks/backs, but have read about a lot of people buying those. Since I boil the meat, the skin basically falls off. Two of my dogs still need to lose some more weight, so I don’t use the skin because they don’t need any extra fat/calories. I do however save the broth since it doesn’t have any sodium/additives in it. I mix chicken in with it and freeze it–they love it.
My largest dog, a male, also INHALES his food. I also worry because my smallest male dog recently needed surgery for a fractured tooth. I bought the dogs some bones from the meat market, and there’s a chance he could have broken his tooth on one of those bones. The vet’s office said that even a hard piece of kibble can do that at times. So..that incident cost him his tooth…and cost ME about $400!!