Bad ingredients include by - products
of human food processing such as hulls, wheat mill run, cereal food fines, cellulose, wheat middlings, floor sweepings and more.
Innova contains none of the following dog food ingredients: Meat meal, animal fat, poultry by - products, soybean meal, rice gluten, wheat mids, peanut hulls, wheat flour, wheat bran, rice flour, BHA, BHT, Ethoxyquin, artificial colors or flavors, or any other substandard, low quality, by - products
from human food processing.
The factory operates at international
human food processing standards, including that of the super-strict British Retail Consortium (BRC), and the pet food processing must pass BRC scrutiny.
Watch out for grain fragments such as Brewers Rice, Peanut Hulls, Rice Hulls and Oat Hulls, These are the byproduct left over
after human food processing.
Cereal Food Fines, Feeding Oat Meal, Grain Fermentation Solubles, Potato Product: All carbohydrate sources that are cheap by - product waste
of human food processing.
Wheat gluten is normally an inexpensive by - product of
human food processing and used primarily as a binder and has little nutritional value.
All are produced from
the human food processing chain.
The companion animal and pet food industry the world over owes its very existence to the use of by - products from
the human food processing chain.
By definition, both chicken and chicken meal that is used in pet foods are by - products, even though these ingredients may come from
a human food processing plant and technically were at one time human grade food.
Apple Pomace, Citrus Pulp: Neither as good as real fruit, both by - products of
human food processing and often added to low quality dog kibble as some form of a fiber, or to make ingredients look good by including fruit!
Logically, plant sources are cheaper, especially considering that corn gluten meal, the most popular, cheap protein booster, is a byproduct of
the human food processing industry, left over from making corn starch and corn syrup.
What we are talking about here is not exactly «waste» but byproducts (from meat as well as milled grains and other sources) left over from
human food processing are found in many poor quality and even higher quality foods, especially when the pet food company is owned by one of the giant companies that also own plants for processing human foods.