- Rice flour (Minus 1 point): Cheap filler, causes bowel distress and can lead to diabetes in dogs.
- Wheat starch (Minus 1 point): Poor carbohydrate source causes allergies.
- Glycerin (Minus 1 point): Sweetens food, used as humectant (keeps food moist), interferes with nutrient assimilation.
- Calcium carbonate (Plus 1 point): Standard source of calcium, promotes strong bones, teeth, cardiovascular health and skeletal strength, used as a buffer to acidic foods.
- Gelatin (Minus 1 point): Filler / binder in can food.
- Gum arabic (Minus 1 point): Cheap filler/binder used in can foods.
- Cellulose Powder (Minus 1 point):Suspected to include recycled cardboard.
- Natural poultry flavor (Minus 1 point): Poor quality of flavor additive.
- Sodium tripolyphosphate (Minus 1 point): Used as rancid meat preservative.
- Salt(Minus 1 point): Used to cover up rancid meat and fat, can cause kidney and heart disease, hypertension — used to encourage cats to drink, source of sodium chloride.
Adorable and catchy advertising, but a terrible product!
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Thanks for sharing this info, Lindsay. Nutrition is as important for our canine buddies as it is for ourself. It frustrates me that nutrition labels are as misleading for both people food and dog food.
Thanks, very helpful. Which chew product do you recommend?
MN – Thank you for the info and the warning, I shall be sure to avoid this so called treat for my dogs!
My puppy who is just over 5 months had one of these yesterday, the frist one, and has had terribly messy poos today. I wont be giving them to her again.
Well they also don’t list BHA or BHT on the package but oddly enough it’s listed on Pedigree’s website. So much for honesty!
Is that a list of the American ingredients? The Australian packaging, which says it’s made in the EU, reads much better;
Cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals (sodium tripolyphosphate min 2.6%, zinc sulphate min 0.11%), meat and animal derivatives. Contains EC permitted preservatives and colourants.
Not great but, in my opinion, fine for a small treat for a big dog like my German Shepherd. He’s on $100 per 15kg kibble and gets bones and fresh meat. But these do seem to rub off plaque.
umm. that sounds even more shady!
‘cereals’? lol
‘derivatives of vegetable origin’? That sounds like code for YELLOW CORN.
True, it is a bit smoke and mirrors, but at least it lists meat rather than “poultry flavor”.
So what do you suggest as a home made or bought alternative?