Traditional dog food starts
with poor quality ingredients (waste from the human food industry) and is processed so heavily by extrusion that it is necessary for companies to add synthetic vitamins to sell food as «complete and balanced.»
Not exact matches
detour, muscle milk bars etc but the
ingredients are of
poor quality and the protien is usually a concentrate
with trans fats etc..
Poor manufacturing conditions of lesser
quality brands (sometimes
with label swaps for name brands) make it possible to receive products that have been made
with toxic
ingredients or even filled
with bacteria during processing.
In addition to being laden
with soy, such products may contain canola or other
poor quality oils; high fructose corn syrup, agave and other questionable sweeteners; refined salt; artificial flavors and other dubious
ingredients.
Just because they remove those
ingredients does not mean they haven't replaced them
with other
poorer quality ingredients.
There are numerous problems
with fast foods and junk foods: they often contain white flour, sugar, hydrogenated fats, or all three; often their
ingredients are of
poor quality with little nutritional value; and what nutrients they have are often lost due to being kept hot or stored for long periods of time.
In most of these dairy foods, the process is the important element, second to the
quality of the primary
ingredient [so, go
with organic milk and you get less junk from the
poor cow].
Many pet foods are of
poor quality, over processed, filled
with artificial
ingredients and many other chemicals, just read the labels.
The difference between naturally constituted whole foods and scientifically concocted manufactured pet foods can be seen on the pet food labels
with a plethora of synthetic vitamins, amino acids and trace minerals of dubious nutritive value and origin (as from China) deemed essential because of the
poor quality of lowest - cost basic
ingredients, and because of the destruction / denaturing of essential nutrients due to processing, storage and cooking.
«Freeze - dried products are only as good as the
ingredients in them, and what we're seeing is manufacturers jumping on the freeze - dried bandwagon and freeze - drying products
with poor -
quality ingredients,» she says.