Read the label and see for yourself what’s in your pet’s food.

It’s important to know what your pet is really eating and to be sure that you are feeding the best for your dog or cat. To understand the quality of ingredients in your pet food, simply focus on top 10 ingredients on the label (which normally comprise of 80% of the entire formula). Food companies must list ingredients in descending order of weight, so that means the first two ingredients are usually the most crucial because there are more of those ingredients than any other.

If you compare the top 10 ingredients in Animal Planet or Best Choice to those of other leading pet food brands, you can clearly see the differences. The first ingredient in Best Choice is real chicken and chicken meal followed by whole grains and other nutritious, natural ingredients. Comparatively the first ingredient in some leading dog food brands is ground yellow corn (which is not as easily digestible) followed by chicken by-product meal and corn gluten meal.

Furthermore, Best Choice only uses high quality chicken fat, which is much healthier than the “animal fat” used by many of the so-called premium brands. Animal fat can be derived from any kind of animal, and usually manufacturers will use whatever animal fat is cheapest at the time.

You can trust Best Choice, because We Care.

Things you don’t want in your pet’s food

When you look at dog food and cat food labels, you’ll be surprised to see some of these ingredients in many of the leading pet food brands.

Artificial Chemicals

Some pet food brands attempt to boost the pet food taste and looks by using artificial colors and flavors, or extend the product’s shelf-life with preservatives such as BHA, BHT, ethoxyquin, propylene glycol. However, these artificial chemicals provide no nutritional value and have been associated with possible toxic side effects.

By-products

Animal by-products are parts obtained from slaughtered animals that normally cannot be used as meat. These parts may include brain, lungs, kidneys, intestines, and blood, which are incomplete sources of protein, and in some cases, have been linked to allergic reactions in certain pets. Nutritional values of these by-products are obviously less beneficial to your pet’s health, so would you really want to feed him something that you wouldn’t eat yourself?

Grain Proteins

Some companies use grain proteins, such as gluten, as a supplement to boost protein percentages, but they are not as digestible as meat-based proteins and do not contain the complete spectrum of amino acid that’s important for your pet’s well-being.