Be on the lookout during this challenge for: dextrose, maltodextrin, sucrose, fructose, cane sugar, evaporated cane juice, acesulfame potassium (sold as Sweet One — often combined with aspartame or sucralose to sweeten gum, diet soda and other sweet products), aspartame (Nutri - sweet and equal), saccharin (sold as Sweet n» Low), stevia (combined with sugar alcohol and sold under brand names like Truvia and
Pure Via), erythritol (a sugar alcohol derivative of corn) xylitol, brown rice syrup (and other syrups), high fructose corn syrup (made
by treating
starch extracted from corn with enzymes to make fructose and glucose)-- and if there's anything on a food label that you think might be sugar, google it.
Instead of the usual cereal grains supplying your dog's energy requirements, what
Pure Balance did was to incorporate potatoes instead to give your dog a resistant
starch which helps improve insulin sensitivity
by reducing insulin spikes.