Here is the list in full.
Chicken polypeptide meal, peas, tapioca starch, sweet potato, chicken fat, beet pulp granules, enzymatically hydrolysed chicken pulp, hydrolysed chicken meal, salmon oil, cellulose, flaxseed. Then carrot granules, dried apples, cabbage, dried cauliflower and blueberry powder, plus a vitamin and mineral mix.
The list finishes with fructooligosaccharides, natural steroid saponins from yucca, rosemary extract, tertiary butylhydroquinone and calcium phosphate.
What are the main ingredients doing?
Ingredient | What it's there for |
Hydrolysed chicken protein | The protein source, broken down small so your dog's body is less likely to react to it |
Peas, sweet potato, tapioca | The carbohydrate, standing in for the grains this food leaves out |
Chicken fat and salmon oil | Energy, plus the omega fats that feed skin and coat |
Beet pulp and cellulose | Fibre, which helps firm things up |
Flaxseed | More omega-3 |
Blueberry, carrot, apple, cabbage, cauliflower | The functional superfoods |
Why is there more than one chicken ingredient?
They're different forms of the same hydrolysed protein, which is why we call it a single hydrolysed protein food. Your dog isn't meeting several different animals, just one, processed a few ways.
What about the preservatives?
There are two antioxidants keeping the fats from going rancid: rosemary extract, and tertiary butylhydroquinone, usually written TBHQ.
What's left out?
Our dog food contains no grain, beef, dairy, gluten, wheat, fillers and artificial colours.
If you want to see how your dog does on it, a 2kg sample is $19.99.