When looking at the ingredient list, the first 8-12 ingredients will make up about 90% of the food – everything else, like vitamins and minerals, are trace amounts. So the first 12 are the following:

Lamb, chicken meal (natural source of glucosamine), whole ground grain sorghum, brewers rice, ground barley, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid), dried beet pulp, carrots, natural flavor, ground flaxseed, peas, potassium chloride

So this is what you’re really buying. What do we have here?

#1 – Whole lamb (unfortunately with water weight so this actually has less protein value than #2); good for allergenic dogs and good as number one, though I’d prefer to see lamb meal.

#2 – Chicken meal. Great! Should be here or as #1 – whole chicken with water removed, so more protein value.

#3 – Whole grain ground sorghum – I prefer to see no grains or grasses in a carnivore’s food because their system is not designed to break them down – reducing them to filler, pretty much. As sorghum can contain toxic levels of cyanide, I’d prefer to not see this.

#4 – Brewers rice – absolute junk. Dogs cannot process grains, and brewers rice especially is filler junk – it is literally broken fragments of processed white rice, with no nutritional value. Not seen in high quality foods.

#5 – Ground barley. Looks like this food is mostly grain – why are grains in a food for a carnivore? Good for people, but dogs cannot process carbohydrates like this.

#6 – Chicken fat. A good source of fatty acids and flavor. Would prefer to see this higher on the list, however.

#7 – Dried beet pulp. High in energy and fiber, it nevertheless canNOT be broken down in a carnivore’s digestive system. This is a good energy source for horses, but for dogs? Nope. It is simply filler in a dog food.

#8 – Carrots. It’s nice to see a vegetable on the list, but as dogs are carnivores I’d prefer to see mostly meat, no grains and minimal vegetation. Plus, this comes before the so-called egg product further down, when really it should come just before the vitamins and minerals – dogs cannot process vegetables as well as meat and bones.

#9 – Natural flavor. Could be anything. Since this food is not the best, I’m guessing it is not real turkey, lamb or chicken flavoring that they use, but rather flavoring from greases or other random animals or byproducts. There is no regulation for natural flavoring.

#10 – Ground flaxseed. More grain. Great for humans, but carnivores cannot digest it.

#11 – Peas. Another vegetable, but I’d prefer to see sweet potatoes or maybe spinach before peas. No real reason – I just think that sweet potatoes and spinach have a higher nutritional value.

#12 – Potassium chloride. Used as a fertilizer and, more commonly, as lethal injection throughout the country, it IS needed in the body, but in food production it is used as a cheap substitute for salt. I’d prefer to see sea salt WAY before potassium chloride.

So . . . . no, this seems pretty average fare and I would not feed this to my pets. Pretty much, I wouldn’t feed my pets anything I wouldn’t eat myself. Processed pet foods have barely been around 100 years, and the millions of animals thriving on fresh foods before then did perfectly well before the advent of processing.

Go with something better, like Eagle Pack, Blue Buffalo, Canidae, or any of the other organic, holistic foods out there.

I heard beet pulp isn’t good for dogs as well as brewers yeast! Other than that it sounds great! Its definitely not grain free because it has Barley and whole grains in it.

Based on how much to feed its sounds like its great dog food! For the 50-100lb thats how much I feed my dogs! On Eagle Pack!I feed that because it helps with their allergies!

How much does it say to feed (based on your dogs weight?) I noticed that the better quality foods feed LESS – Example, my aunt’s dog is on Pedigree and gets 4-5 cups a day (65 lbs) but if he were on MY dog’s food Canidae he would get 3-4 cups a day.