The Top 10 Worst Dog Food Brands For Last Two Years
Not all dog foods are created equal, but some attributes are very common in most brands of inferior dog food. Worst brands of dog foods on the market usually load their products with inexpensive fillers. You will usually find corn and wheat in the 5 first ingredients.
In addition, their lower-quality dog food use high concentration of carbohydrates rather than meat-based ones. They generally use a lot of by-products and vegetable proteins. Furthermore, they add extra artificial colors and flavors to make their products more palatable to pets and dog owners.
Frequent recalls of products are another common point of these worst dog food brands.
So, let’s begin..
1- Alpo
The Alpo dog food brand was founded nearly 80 years ago to supply tasty and meat-rich dog food. Alpo is one of the many pet food brands of Purina group, which includes other inferior dog food brands like Beneful, Mighty Dog, Purina Dog Chow, T-Bonz, and Waggin’ Train.
Advertised as a « meat-rich dog food » brand, the Alpo brand is sadly loading up their dog products with artificial additives and low-quality ingredients.
Alpo wet foods come in a variety of flavors that are
While these food are supposed to be « cooked in savory juices » with meaty ingredients like filet mignon and bacon, a quick search reveals a heavy-use of by-products meat and many artificial flavors.
Both Alpo wet and dry dog food are concerned with low-quality fillers like ground yellow corn and plant proteins like corn gluten meal and soybean meal.
Recall Info: In its 80 years of existence, the brand Alpo has been concerned by many recalls. And over the past decade, the Alpo brand has issued one major recall for over a dozen dog food products (potential melamine contamination).
Problem Ingredients: meat by-products, animal digest, ground yellow corn, corn gluten meal, meat and bone meal, soy flour, artificial preservatives, artificial colors, artificial flavors
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