Unfortunately, the fact that these foods only have
a few ingredients listed on the label is very misleading.
Not exact matches
When buying packaged foods, check food
labels for the word «whole» in front of the word «grain» and make sure that corn syrup or one of the other simple carbohydrates
listed above doesn't appear among the first
few ingredients on the
list.
There were four studies done a
few years ago that showed 80 percent of «limited
ingredient» kibbles (prescription and over-the-counter) were contaminated with proteins that were not
listed on the
label.
Because manufacturers
list ingredients in pet food in order of decreasing weight, the first
few ingredients on the
label are the most important when analyzing nutritional value.