Low-Quality Meats and Meals
The Reviews.com teams notes that though meat-meals may not sound all that great, the FDA says that these meals can often be packed with protein and other beneficial nutrients, but they chose to exclude some meals for good reason.
If the type of meat was not defined, it had to go – some meat meals have been shown to contain restaurant grease, diseased livestock, or expired supermarket meat. Items like “duck meal” and “salmon meal” passed the test. And because ingredients are listed by volume, they also disqualified recipes that did not have a whole protein listed as their first ingredient.
“While we didn’t want to eliminate every single formula that had any type of meal anywhere (this would’ve left only a small number of extremely pricey formulas), we did feel that a truly high-quality dog food shouldn’t take shortcuts on its main ingredient. So we cut formulas without a named, whole animal protein, like chicken or venison, in the first ingredient slot.”
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