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The quality of the ingredients and nutrients in the food that we feed our pets every day is the foundation to their health and longevity.
Pets have developed many health concerns such as allergies, skin conditions, behavioural issues, and sadly cancer. These health concerns can stem from poor nutrition.
It’s important to note that natural vs. chemical ingredients and food ingredients can cause sensitive reactions. Understanding what goes into your pet’s food makes it easier to make healthy choices for them.
How to Tell the Difference in Pet Foods
The ingredient panels on a grocery/mass pet food may look similar to premium but there are differences. These important differences will not be apparent on the ingredient panel of a grocery/mass pet food.
- Low quality meat that is not fit for human consumption along with the by-products may be present in grocery/mass pet foods.
- Lower quality ingredients provide only marginal nourishment for your pet.
- Restaurant grease and discarded fats from rendering plants are common in grocery/mass pet foods.
- Ingredients are sometimes found in grocery/mass pet foods such as corn husks, wheat gluten meal, corn gluten meal, rice by-products, and soy by-products provide no nutritional value to pets.
- Fillers are sometimes found in grocery/mass pet foods like peanut hulls, soybean meals, corn meals, grain sorghum, and whole kernel corn that provide no nutritional value.
There may be ingredients left out of the ingredient panel because pet food manufacturers only need to list what they add.
There may be chemicals or disinfectants added to the ingredients at the slaughterhouse or rendering plant. These ingredients are not required to be added to the ingredient panel.
What Premium Pet Foods Sold at Pet Planet Offer
- Human grade meat.
- Free of pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, antibiotics, and hormones.
- The vitamins and minerals added are fortified at higher levels than grocery/mass pet foods.
- Trace minerals added to the food are bioavailable to support the health of your pet.
- High quality ingredients means that the food at Pet Planet is more easily digested and assimilated by your pet.
- Premium pet food is often less expensive than grocery/mass pet food in the long run. This is because you feed less of it. Therefore, the cost is about the same or less to feed your pet high-quality premium food.
Through our proprietary Certificate of Trust we ensure that all the pet food that earns space on Pet Planet shelves. We choose our products with purpose, and ensure they contains no harmful ingredients.
Pet Planet does the deep dive for you to ensure that there are no harmful ingredients, and all meat used in the foods are human grade originating from a human food facility. We ensure through the Certificate of Trust that animals used in food at Pet Planet are handled humanely.
When it comes to your pet’s food there really is a difference and what you feed your pet is very important to your pet’s health long term.