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All pet foods must list the ingredients present in the food. The ingredients must be listed in order of weight. This is one of the best ways to determine the quality of the food. With a little knowledge of the ingredients you can choose a food that is highly digestible and free of unwanted products.

Tactics used by manufacturers to disguise less desirable ingredients. Breaking an ingredient into several different smaller ingredients and listing them individually is used to place these undesirable ingredients further down the ingredient list. A product list could contain chicken, ground corn, corn gluten, ground wheat, corn bran, wheat flour.

If we were to group all of the corn ingredients as one they would probably far out-weigh the amount of chicken, and wheat. As a consumer, you must read all of the ingredients carefully including the ingredients at the end to know the type of preservatives and colorings that are used.

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