05/06/2017
What's in "Whiskers" chicken dinner?
"SUFFICEINT WATER FOR PROCESSING, CHICKEN, MEAT BY-PRODUCTS, WHEAT GLUTEN, STARCH, SALT, NATURAL FLAVOR, SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE, ADDED COLOR, GUAR GUM"
- This half makes it looks and taste chicken ish. Chicken by-products as pet MD explains are:
"clean non-rendered "parts", other than meat, derived from slaughtered mammals. It includes, but is not limited to lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, blood, bone, fatty tissue and stomachs and intestines freed of their contents. This is a cheap way for pet food companies to keep the protein levels "high" (although not high quality) while keeping food production costs low."
So we've now got a meaty type substance, yet Gluten, starch, colours and guar gum don't offer the nutrition meat does - which means we have to start adding synthetic vitamin supplements back in. This brings us to the other half of their ingredient list:
POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, MAGNESIUM SULFATE, TAURINE, CHOLINE CHLORIDE, DL-METHIONINE, VITAMIN E SUPPLEMENT, ZINC SULFATE, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE (VITAMIN B1), COPPER SULFATE, MANGANESE SULFATE, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B6), POTASSIUM IODIDE, VITAMIN D3 SUPPLEMENT, FOLIC ACID, MENADIONE SODIUM BISULFITE COMPLEX (SOURCE OF VITAMIN K ACTIVITY).
This article examines the problem of using supplements instead of obtaining vitamins via whole foods: https://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/synthetic-vs-natural-vitamins/
This is definitely not a "winner winner chicken dinner"!
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