Product Description:

Healthy Skin Venison Meal & Rice Recipe is designed to help avoid common pet food ingredients that may cause food intolerances such as beef, corn, wheat, pork, soy or dairy products. It is lactose-free and contains no color additives or artificial preservatives. This recipe is a wholesome, complete and balanced maintenance diet for your adult dog. It is formulated with a unique animal protein source and provides the same essential nutrients found in diets with beef or chickens as the protein source.

Over time, even common ingredients like beef, corn or wheat can lead to food intolerance. So choose Nature's Recipe®. Our dog food provides balanced nutrition without beef, corn or wheat.

Benefits:

Unique Formulation AspectCanine Health BenefitFormulated without beef, corn, wheat or dairy products, No sugars added.Avoids common pet food ingredients that may cause food intolerances.High quality venison meal, vegetable protein sources and highly digestible grains.CProvides amino acids necessary for maintaining muscles and the immune system.Natural preservation with mixed tocopherols.Protects dietary fat without the use of less desirable artificial preservatives.Complementary metabolic antioxidants - Vitamin E, Beta-Carotene and Selenium.Helps protect the fats, proteins, and other materials in the body from the harmful effects of free radicals.Minimum proteinates like copper and zinc.Highly digestible sources of nutrients essential for healthy skin and coat.Natural (with added vitamins and minerals); no artificial preservatives, colors or flavors.Promotes health, beauty and vitality while avoiding ingredients you may not want in your dog's diet.

Guaranteed Analysis Crude Protein22.0% Crude Fat10.0% Crude Fiber4.0% Moisture10.0% Iron200 mg/kg Copper10 mg/kg Zinc150 mg/kg Selenium0.3 mg/kg Vitamin E100 IU/kg Omega 6 fatty acids*1.50% Omega 3 fatty acids*0.07% Beta-Carotene*4 mg/kg

*Not recognized as an essential nutrient by AAFCO dog food nutrient profiles.

Dog Food Review

• Animal Digest - Minus 1 point = Animal Digest
• Corn - Plus 1 point = no corn
• Wheat - Plus 1 point = No wheat
• Soy - Plus 1 point = No Soy
• Gluten - Plus 1 point = no gluten
• Extra Goodies - Minus 1 point = ground rice
• By-Products - Plus 1 point = No by-products
• Animal Fat - Minus 1 point = chicken fat
• Pet Food Recalls - Minus 1 point = Recalls Del Monte Pet Foods
• Class Action - Minus 1 point = Class Action against Nature's Recipe Pet Foods

Dog Food Rating for Nature's Recipe Healthy Skin Venison Meal & Rice Recipe Dog Food

Total Score = 5/10 Ask Susan Peters Dog Food ReviewThere are a lot of ingredients listed in this product which are not required by a dog. Most of the stuff listed are "feel good" ingredients. When it comes down to it the stuff is made from manure with junk added to it. I wouldn't feed manure to my dog and I'm not spending hard-earned money on packaged manure.

I'm telling you about the manure Del Monte decided to include in the pet food for your pet. Animal digest. How about that ... we don't even know from which animal the digested tissue came from. If Del Monte wanted us to know our pets were eating beef poop Del Monte would say "Beef digest". Since Del Monte chose to say "animal" the animal can be anything from dog, cat, rat, road kill or whatever. AAFCO doesn't care that manure is included in the pet food as long as the temperature at the time of cooking is brought to a certain degree.

Now there are those people out there who simply refuse to believe Nature's Recipe would use manure in their pet's foods. Let me ask you to think on this issue for just a minute and then see what you decide. Let's take a person, for instance, When a person begins the "digestion" process food is placed in the mouth for chewing. Digestion continues as the food passes to the stomach and is broken down to pass into the intestines for futher digestion. Digestion is complete once the person has had a bowl movement and fully evacuated the food from the human body. Why would obtaining human digest be any different from animal digest?

Class Action - "Premium" Pet food marketed and sold as "Complete and Balanced" has historically contained such items as Euthanized Dogs and Cats, Restaurant Grease, Hair, Hooves, and Diseased Animals, and other Inedible Garbage.

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