Purina Pro Plan Select Natural Turkey & Barley
August 26, 2010
Filed under Dog Food Reviews, Latest Dog Food Reviews, Purina
Of all the Purina dog foods we have looked at, this is the very best they have to offer, although is is still a very low grade dog food. It is downright scary seeing brewers dried yeast in the list, but worse is seeing it this high. Natural flavor is an unknown ingredient and most likely contains some kind of nasty preservative. Chicken meal contains a very tiny amount of glucosamine and this is the only company to make such a ridiculous statement. Fish oil is an again an unknown product which most likely contains Ethoxyquin, a preservative banned in human food. Menadione sodium bisulfite complex is a synthetic Vitamin which is very harmful to dogs, to include serious liver issues. Salt is not needed in a dog’s diet and is their just to enhance the taste of a cheap dog food.
Purina Pro Plan Select Turkey & Barley Formula Ingredient Analysis
- Turkey
- Brewers rice
- Barley
- Chicken meal
- Dried egg
Turkey is a good meat source, but after processing this meat moves quite a distance down the list leaving brewers rice as the main Ingredient.
Brewers rice is a very low grade grain.
Barley is a medium grade grain.
Chicken meal is a good meat source.
Dried egg is good for a dogs skin and coat.
Purina Pro Plan Select Turkey & Barley Formula Ingredient List
Turkey, brewers rice, barley, chicken meal (natural source of glucosamine), dried egg product, brewers dried yeast, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), oat meal, pea protein, pea fiber, dried beet pulp, natural flavor, fish oil, calcium carbonate, salt, potassium chloride, dried carrots, dried tomatoes, dried sweet potatoes, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, calcium phosphate, Vitamin E supplement, zinc proteinate, manganese proteinate, ferrous sulfate, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of Vitamin C), niacin, copper proteinate, Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, calcium iodate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), sodium selenite.
Purina Pro Plan Select Turkey & Barley Formula Guaranteed Analysis
Guaranteed Analysis describes the nutrient content required by AAFCO labeling standards to be identified on every product package. Since these are guarantees, pet food manufacturers work to formulate diets that meet or exceed the minimum requirements.
| Crude Protein (Min) | 27.0% |
|---|---|
| Crude Fat (Min) | 17.0% |
| Crude Fibre (Max) | 4.0% |
| Moisture (Max) | 12.0% |
| Linoleic Acid (Min) | 1.4% |
| Calcium (Ca) (Min) | 1.0% |
| Phosphorus (P) (Min) | 0.9% |
| Vitamin A (Min) | 15,000 IU/kg |
| Vitamin E (Min) | 460 IU/kg |
| Ascorbic Acid† (Min) | 70 mg/kg |
| Docosahexaenoic Acid† (DHA)(Min) | 0.15% |
| Eicosapentaenoic Acid† (EPA)(Min) | 0.15% |
| Glucosamine† (Min) | 600 ppm |
| Glutamine† (Min) | 1.0% |
| Omega-3 Fatty Acids† (Min) | 0.4% |
| Omega-6 Fatty Acids† (Min) | 2.0% |
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Although I don’t think too highly of this food there are some misconceiving information.
According to AAFCO the ingredients must be listed in order “…greater than or equal to the next ingredient” which in the literal translation if a label had 20 ingredients each one could be 5% of the formula, wouldn’t happen though. For the example the turkey meal meal could be 80% of the formula and rice ingredients 5.0%, 5.0%, 5.0%. That isn’t the case either.
One way to kinda reverse formulate a recipe is to look at the fat content and where fat is in the listing. “Fat” contributes 100% fat to the formula, in this food the fat content is only 17.0%. Since the turkey and chicken meal both contain fat then this ingredient most likely around 13.0% of the formula.
Natural flavors are highly concentrated and are usually included at less than 50 lbs per ton. So anything below natural flavors is going to be less than 1% of the formula and that’s a conservative number. Sodium chloride is salt, again less than 1.0% of the formula.
All of the meat products will have between 45-65% protein (chicken is wet, so less as-fed protein)The dog food contains 26% crude protein. So if you look at it mathematically, the meat products in total will really can’t make up more than 50% of the formula. Also take into account that rice and the other ingredients contribute protein to the diet.(but they normally contain 12% or less protein)
A premix packet contain the premixed vitamins and minerals and most food companies have their proprietary premix that is added at no more than 50 lbs per ton, some at 10 lbs per ton. So take every ingredient from salt down, total them together and they are less than 2.5% of the formula, broken down, the ingredients at the bottom are included at less than 0.005%, or grams per ton, which means a minuscule amount of intake when eaten.
Yes, I’ve worked in the pet food industry, and I’ve formulated pet foods (not dog/cat) but I’ve toured many manufacturing facilities, and gone to many seminars on ingredients, manufacturing, and formulation. I’m a label fanatic, and understand “label dressing” it’s the part of the product development department that marketing sticks their fingers into…sigh..I battle internally between nutrition and marketing all the time.
But I write this long post so people don’t get really excited about some of the ingredients that look so good, but are in the middle of the ingredient list. There are a lot of really good dog foods on the market now, the decision becomes personal, one not just of ingredients, but of philosophy.
Dawn, very intelligent and unbiased comment. You actually hit it on the head, I have only visited a couple of actual facilities myself most frequent is the one here in my state that’s not too far from my parents house. I think the thing I find most shocking is the fact that there’s only a few places in North America that supply the chicken meal & other meat meals used in pet food.
Dawn, please give me a link to those facts. Because I have heard and read the total opposite and their is no way I buy into that. In fact their is NO formula, period….Annnnd on AAFCO web site they say they do not, nor do they even have control over dog food ingredient numbers PERIOD and is up to the individual State, see the bottom. This has been a BIG ISSUE for years because manufactures like “”purnia”" just flat out lie about what % of what is really in their dog food. Now a good company like Champion gives percents of meat and such on their bags and they have to be correct or they can and well be sued.
http://www.aafco.org/
LOL, Dawn after visiting your site and seeing that crap dog (& cat) food you sell, I would not believe anything that you have to say. All I can say is you have nothing to offer people like myself and Michelle, who do tons of research and only believe in feeding “”DECENT”" dog foods. UUUGGGHH, what you sell is AWFUL TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY AWFUL….
This is one of the products you sell, I put this in the same league as ol roy, and it could be worse. It is one of the 3 worst ingredient lists I have ever seen. There is not one good ingredient in this product, not ONE. To come here and act like you know something about dog foods, then sell something like this, is UNBELIEVABLE JUST UNBELIEVABLE!!!
Poultry by-product meal, whole grain ground corn, wheat middlings, soybean meal, whole grain ground wheat, natural flavors, poultry fat (preserved with BHA and citric acid), beet pulp, yeast culture, salt, minerals (zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, zinc oxide, calcium carbonate, copper sulfate, sodium selenite, manganous oxide, mineral oil, calcium iodate, cobalt carbonate), vitamins (vitamin A acetate, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin E supplement, niacin, d-calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin supplement, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of vitamin K activity), folic acid, biotin, vitamin B12 supplement, choline chloride.
No matter how you slice it, white bread is poison…same goes for Pure-crap-ina! They can deceptively list meat at the first ingredient to make the food appear like good food but Purina can NEVER claim their food is human grade. That turkey and chicken in there is from meat rejected for use in human food. What kind of meat is rejected from human food? Diseased, sick dying animals and animals which have been dead before slaughter. These meat sources carry the most harmful disgusting bacteria and pathogens but because they cook it at extremely high temps it kills such things but the high temps also kill most of the little vitamins in the food…that is why they have to add soooo many vitamins to it…and what kind of vitamins do they use?…the cheapest,poorest quality, with cancer-causing chemicals added. Do your pet a favor, NEVER feed purina, hills, science diet, pedigree, iams, eukanuba, or royal canin….all horrible quality dog foods!