What sort of ingredients in dog food...?

Question

is unhealthy for dogs? So when you look for that ingredient(s) in the dog food you won't buy it.

Answer 1

Any corn product.
Any soy product.
Any unidentified "meat" or "meat" meal! (Chicken, lamb, beef, etc are identified meats.)

Answer 2

Corn Gluten
Wheat Gluten
Animal Digest.

Answer 3

I always avoid brands that use the following:
Corn of any kind
Ground Rice
Ground Sorghum
By-products
Any form of "meal"...you want a real , whole, listed meat product instead.
Beef
Brewers Rice
Menadione
Soy
Bone and Meat Meal
ANY form of "sugar"

Here is a complete list of ingredients to avoid, with the reasons why:

http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?page=badingredients

Answer 4

corn or corn by-products ( anything that says corn) in the first few ingredints is bad.
Try Blue Buffalo dog food
its really good for them

Answer 5

all the corn, wheat, animal digest (animal-by-products) which is basically anything that hits the ground from dead animals.... Corn and such is just fillers, which like in humans they pass right out after they are eaten... alot of "meal" also..

Answer 6

Corn, wheat, soy, by products, artificial dyes/colors/preservatives

Answer 7

Wheat gluten is one of the most common causes for allergies in dogs. Also anything that says "bi product" is not very good.
Try a high quality food like Science Diet or Eukanuba, or maybe a holistic food from health food store.

Answer 8

There are a bunch of them.
Corn or any mention or it. Wheat. Soy, beet pulp, when it say's by products, meals of any kind ect....

Answer 9

by products, meat meal, BHA, beet pulp, grains, gluten, coloring(such as beneful), Some sort of protein should be first,

Answer 10

corn/corn meal. It is really filling, but has little/no nutritional value. They pass it right out.