It’s a shame that the mainstream media still put out generalities under the guise of helpful consumer information on dog food .

A case in point is the recent posting from news-star.com.

Titled: “How to pick the best dog food” it completely misses most of the real information that pet parents need to know about the dog food industry and dog food labeling.

For example, it’s not enough to say that you look at the first few ingredients listed in the food. The article says” “A good, quality food is always going to list the meat as the first ingredient.”

This may be true but it misses the VITAL point that some companies legally mislead you by putting, say, “chicken” as the first ingredient and not letting you know this is the weight with WATER of the unprocessed ingredients.

Water is lost in cooking so the amount of nutritional protein is going to be less with “chicken”

Now because most of the water has been removed in chicken meal, this makes it a concentrated source of protein and truly worthy of being the #1 ingredient on the list – even without the weight of water.

This means that there is a greater “protein content” in one pound of chicken meal versus one pound of chicken meat.

Choose wisely! Dr. Jane’s Lifes Abundance dog food (which we recommend) lists “Chicken Meal” as it’s #1 ingredient.