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Nutram vs Nutrience
While both brands are a higher quality Canadian food, Nutram stands out to pet planet and here’s why:
Nutram has something called a holistic approach, meaning they’d rather have natural, unprocessed ingredients while also having a scientific understanding to help keep the pets diet balanced. A holistic approach means they are gonna have fruits and veggies in their diet to help with immunity instead of having a medicated diet that has potential risks. They have experts help craft each recipe to make sure nutrient absorption is maximized.
Nutram often uses high quality animal proteins such as chicken, turkey, and fish providing amino acids. Nutrience also provides good protein sources but the formulas differ, sometimes meaning a by product is included. Nutram generally has a higher amount of animal protein .
Nutram has lots of different variety, including fully rotational diets for small breed, limited ingredient foods, and all life stages. Nutram also offers optimum combinations, which brings the benefit of having extra support to support your pets health and well being, some of these include immunity boost, improved mobility, calming effect, better digestion and many more. Nutram is also designed to meet AAFCO and also FEDIAF standards where as nutrience meets only AAFCO standards.
Part 2️⃣ Go vs Hills Science Diet
Part 1️⃣ Go vs Hills Science Diet
For starters, the biggest difference between the two brands will be what you’re paying for. When looking into Hills, you will notice that the first few ingredients are either a by-product or a filler like corn. When looking at the ingredient panel it’s important that you understand how it works, the higher the ingredient is, the higher concentration of that product. When you look into Go solutions, you will find that there aren’t any fillers or by-products AT ALL! Instead de-boned meat will be first ingredient, meaning you’re paying for protein and not a carbohydrate.
Another important difference would be purely supporting Canadian businesses! Go is made at one facility in Fraser Valley, British Columbia, where the Hills Science Diet is made in many different facilities all over the United States. Keeping production down to one area helps to ensure highest quality of food, and ensures that all products are up to the same standards. Go solutions takes a lot of pride in being very transparent, from where they source meat, to how they treat their employees. When buying Canadian dog food, you’re not only supporting the brand, but you’re supporting our farmers all around Canada. It’s important to pay attention to where ingredients are being sourced, a lot of the times your popular grocery store food will have ingredients imported from places like China, and most of the time those ingredients are essential, like taurine and vitamin B.
Lastly, I want to mention some of the amazing perks of the Go solutions food. They have multiple different types of food including skin and coat, LID, and joint care. When feeding go, you unlock the world of fully rotational food. Their LID line has novelty proteins like venison and even wild boar! We also work with the brand making it possible for us to provide you with the frequent feeder program, simply sign up and it will automatically add up all bags you’ve gotten until it’s
Part 1️⃣ Acana vs Purina
Acana is subject to strict regulations and guidelines to ensure quality and safety, notably because it is manufactured in Canada. With this, Acana must meet CFIA regulations, along with AAFCO, especially important for importing their foods into the the USA. The CFIA and AAFCO regulate the production and import/export of the foods, ensuring they meet Canadian (and American) standards. On top of these, Acana must meet HACCP standards which ensure safety during the manufacturing process, working to eliminate any hazards and producing ideal quality foods.
Purina is subject to the AAFCO (and FDA, in some states), which only meets basic nutritional safety requirements and doesn’t ensure the food to be recall-free.
Acana takes pride in their quality ingredients, packing their products with fresh superfoods, fruits and vegetables full of antioxidants to support your pets health. Many of Purina’s lines do not include fruits or vegetables in their formulas, only meeting very basic nutritional requirements.
Additionally, you can find many natural supplements in Acana’s food, such as milk thistle (aids digestion and immune system, as well as a natural liver support), turmeric (anti-inflammatory), and marshmallow root (helps skin & coat health, along with being an natural acting antioxidant). Purina often lacks supplements in their food, sacrificing overall health maintenance.
Feeding guidelines for Acana kibble are much less than Purina, simply due to the quality of ingredients and amount of protein. Acana’s first ingredients include fresh meats, followed by vegetables and fruits, maintaining a high protein profile and ensuring that you won’t have to feed cups and cups of food as the kibble consists of pure, natural ingredients.
Part 2️⃣ Costco vs Canadian Naturals
Part 1️⃣ Costco vs Canadian Naturals
Formula standards: Canadian naturals is made from high quality ingredients from BC as well as New Zealand. Canadian naturals always stays with same suppliers meaning they know the standards. Canadian naturals is also family owned. New Zealand has high and strict standards on meat meaning it’s highest quality that they send out! In Costco it is all American ingredients from many different suppliers with not as high quality standards. In costcos formula almost all vegetables are below salt on the ingredient list meaning they are less than 1% of the ingredients.
Standards: Costco’s standards only follow and receive AAFCO certification where Canadian naturals has AAFCO, SQF, and HACCP.
Feeding: when feeding Canadian naturals you may notice your dog not having to eat as much as you would be feeding on Costco due to the higher amounts of fruits and vegetables as well as quality of meat being more strict meaning higher quality, Therefore you will be feeding your pets less.
Canadian naturals has three sizes of bag for both cat and dog to make sure you can keep their food fresh making less waste over time!
