Animal Digest: This ingredient is essentially a cooked-down broth made from parts of unspecified animals. Though it's untraceable and prohibited in organic pet food, it is still listed in some natural dog foods. Animal digest may include goats, pigs, horses, rats, roadkill, diseased animals, and even animals euthanized at shelters.
Brewer's rice: These rice fragments are a byproduct of the rice milling process. Brewers rice contains far fewer nutrients than whole brown rice and is also much cheaper for manufacturers to produce. Look for brown rice on labels instead.
Wheat gluten: This tough, sticky substance is left behind when starch is removed from wheat. Used as binder in some pet foods, it's an inexpensive food-processing byproduct that has little nutritional value.
Article by Mitchell Clute 'Delicousliving' February 2011
Brewer's rice: These rice fragments are a byproduct of the rice milling process. Brewers rice contains far fewer nutrients than whole brown rice and is also much cheaper for manufacturers to produce. Look for brown rice on labels instead.
Wheat gluten: This tough, sticky substance is left behind when starch is removed from wheat. Used as binder in some pet foods, it's an inexpensive food-processing byproduct that has little nutritional value.
Article by Mitchell Clute 'Delicousliving' February 2011
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