| Dog food ingredients | | | | pet foods tainted by contaminated wheat and rice |
| Pet-nutrition experts say that the best dog food is | | | | gluten from China. |
| made from human-grade ingredients like meat, whole | | | | Meat (chicken, turkey, beef, lamb) should be the first |
| grains and vegetables. What you don't want is a lot | | | | ingredient, followed by digestible carbohydrate |
| of filler, ingredients that have no nutritional benefit. | | | | sources such as potatoes, or more absorbable grains |
| Dogs can absorb most of the nutrients from white | | | | such as rice. If you've read any dog food labels, you |
| rice and potatoes, but are unable to absorb the | | | | may have noticed the term "by-product." Meat |
| nutrients from grains like oats, flour, wheat, and corn. | | | | by-product consists mainly of animal parts that are |
| Glutens are another group of ingredients that experts | | | | not used for human consumption, such as bones, |
| say don't provide much nutritional value to dogs, and | | | | organs, blood, fatty tissue and intestines. Best to |
| are a particular concern since 2007's massive recall of | | | | avoid foods that contain meat by-products. |