Are Nutrience and Beneful dog food brands healthy?

Question

I almost always feed my two dogs Nutrience but have on occasion fed them Beneful.

Answer 1

No they are very low quality foods, especailly Beneful. It is full of grains which dogs do not need or process well.

Answer 2

I have 2 huskys and a german sheperd, I never did trust pet food companies since my Dad worked in one. I know what garbage they put into those supposedly delicious and healthy food for your dogs. I am a firm believer and practice feeding my dogs a BARF diet or bones and raw food or biologically appropriate raw food for dogs and cats. My dogs are healthy, great teeth all white and no bad breath , my vet bills are almost nill and I spend almost as much as my friends do for kibble or the regular pet company food. A friend of mine lost her dog and cat to a pet food recall sometime ago and I saw how hard she took it. I dont look over my shoulders with BARF and for the past 7 years my dogs are healthy and energetic. you can see it in the way they move and in their eyes. the internet is such a tool that if you havent checked out BARF diets for dogs and cats then your probably not trying to find the best for you pets. check it out and see if it is something you would want to try and about salmonella and ecolli....havent had any incidents in my house since I take the same precaution as I do whenever I prepare meals for my family. Good Luck

Answer 3

I don't feed my dog anything that has corn, by-products, meals, ect... I look for natural ingredients that I would eat myself. I don't want to shorten her life because I don't want to spend a bit more for better food. I also don't think it's a good idea to get them used to eating just 1 brand of food.
A guy I work with a guy that wouldn't feed his cat anything but Iams {yuck!} canned cat food, when they had that recall he had a really hard time getting her to eat anything else. He did have some that was on the list but she didn't get sick.
I do also give her people. I will cut up cooked meat add some white rice, carrots, peas, green beans, gravy or broth and a bit of cheese. She loves it! She also loves fruit and I use that and beef jerky instead of the regular dog treats they sell. I have a "diaper bag" that I call my doggie bag and I have dehydrated fruit in there and take it every where with us. People think I'm nuts feeding my dog fruit. Most people don't think dogs eat anything but meat. DUH!

Answer 4

Never heard of Nutrience, but Beneful is definitely not ''high quality''.

Answer 5

i been using beneful for many years for my two dogs. they like it and more important they stay healthy on it.

Answer 6

Look at your dogfood bag for the Beneful.. It's GARBAGE.. Yellow corn, chicken by products, more
corn,

Ground yellow corn, chicken by-product meal, corn gluten meal, whole wheat flour, beef tallow preserved with mixed-tocopherols (source of Vitamin E), rice flour, beef, soy flour, sugar, sorbitol, tricalcium phosphate, water, animal digest, salt, phosphoric acid, potassium chloride, dicalcium phosphate, sorbic acid (a preservative), L-Lysine monohydrochloride, dried peas, dried carrots, calcium carbonate, calcium propionate (a preservative), choline chloride, vitamin supplements (E, A, B-12, D-3), added color (Yellow 5, Red 40, Yellow 6, Blue 2), DL-Methionine, zinc sulfate, glyceryl monostearate, ferrous sulfate, niacin, manganese sulfate, calcium pantothenate, riboflavin supplement, biotin, thiamine mononitrate, garlic oil, copper sulfate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), calcium iodate, sodium selenite.

Here's Nutrience.. Not much better. It's a little better, but not great..

Chicken meal, ground corn, brewers rice, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid), dried beet pulp, dried whole egg, lecithin, hydrolysed chicken, chicken flavor, yeast culture, salt, potassium chloride, flaxseed meal, calcium propionate (preservative), yeast extract, citric acid, fumaric acid, malic acid, lactic acid, marigold extract, mint leaves, parsley, dehydrated green tea, glucosamine sulfate (0.04%), chondroitin sulfate (0.01%), dried kelp, dried cayenne, dried carob, dried rosemary, dried fenugreek, dried ginger, dried turmeric, dried fennel, rosemary extract, yucca schidigera extract, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), iron proteinate, ferrous sulfate, zinc methionine complex, zinc oxide, sodium selenite, vitamin E supplement, vitamin B12 supplement, copper proteinate, copper sulfate, manganese proteinate, manganous oxide, folic acid, niacin, calcium pantothenate, vitamin A acetate, riboflavin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamine mononitrate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of vitamin K activity), calcium iodate, vitamin D3 supplement.