Ingredients to avoid when we choice dog food.
You may wonder what dog food is the best.
The best food is what your dog like to eat and what makes your dog healthy.
But we can't know what is the best because we are not a professional.
So we need to read the ingredients in dog food we will buy at least.
There are some ingredients to avoid.
1. CMIT (Chloromethylisothiazolinone)
- BHA
- BHT
- ethoxyquin
- Propylene Glycol
That is a cancer-causing agent and cause of illness of every kind.
BHA, BHT, ethoxyquin, Propylene Glycol are belongs to CMIT.
2. grains causing skin problem
- Corn
- wheat
- soy or soy-bean
Corn, wheat, soy or soy-bean can cause your dog's skin problem or make it worse.
3. gluten meal
- corn gluten meal
- wheat gluten meal
- soy-bean gluten meal
That is very low priced dregs of grains.
4. by-product of grain
- corn bran
- rice bran
- rice flour
- brewers rice
- beet pulp
- dried brewers yeast
5. low-grade fat
- animal fat
- poultty fat
Fat not to see where it is from is not good.
6. by-product of meat
- poultry by-product meal
- chicken by-product meal
Those are neck, beak, legs, intestine, etc.
Those are easy to rot and have no nutritional value.
7. meat not to see where it is from
- meat meal
- bone meal
- blood meal
- fish meal
- animal meal
- poultry meal
You need to check the name of meat.
Chicken meal or duck meal is safe because you can know that the meal is of chicken or duck.
8. food coloring
- yellow 5
- blue 2
- red 40
- etc
9. taste and flavor enhancers
- ~flavors
- ~digest
Those are synthetic flavoring matters.
10. canola oil
- canola oil
Most of canola oil may be GMO.
I recommend to read carefully the Nutrition Facts of a dog food which you will buy.
