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firefly46 On July 06, 2010




Plymouth, United Kingdom
#76New Post! Sep 23, 2009 @ 19:51:45
@jonnythan Said

Interesting definitions, considering they're basically meaningless.

There are no definitions of the words premium and super premium in the US. Anyone can call their food a premium food.


Don't understand Jonnythan why are they meaningless?
jonnythan On August 02, 2014
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#77New Post! Sep 23, 2009 @ 19:57:08
@firefly46 Said

Don't understand Jonnythan why are they meaningless?


Because the definitions are based solely on what ingredient is listed first.

According to these definitions, a food with "chicken" as the first ingredient and "corn gluten meal" and "brewers rice" as the second and third ingredients would be "super premium" foods.

A food with "potato" as the first ingredient, but "chicken meal" and egg as the second and third ingredients, would be the lowest-tier "complete" food.

However, the second food is almost certainly superior in every way to the first food. It most likely has more meat, higher quality proteins, and fewer low-nutrient fillers.
firefly46 On July 06, 2010




Plymouth, United Kingdom
#78New Post! Sep 23, 2009 @ 20:27:06
@jonnythan Said

Because the definitions are based solely on what ingredient is listed first.

According to these definitions, a food with "chicken" as the first ingredient and "corn gluten meal" and "brewers rice" as the second and third ingredients would be "super premium" foods.

A food with "potato" as the first ingredient, but "chicken meal" and egg as the second and third ingredients, would be the lowest-tier "complete" food.

However, the second food is almost certainly superior in every way to the first food. It most likely has more meat, higher quality proteins, and fewer low-nutrient fillers.


This is the typical contents of a Super premium food in the U.K

Ingredients

Lamb Meal* (min 30%), Whole Grain Rice (min 26%), Whole Grain Maize, Chicken Fat*, Beet Pulp, Dried Brewers Yeast, Egg Powder, Fish Meal*, Linseed, Fish Oil*, Minerals, Vitamins, Nucleotides, Prebiotic FOS, Prebiotic MOS, Cranberry Extract, Chondroitin Sulphate, Glucosamine Sulphate, MSM, Yucca Extract. *Preserved with mixed tocopherols and rosemary extract

The first ingredient is its main ingredient. With meat being its main ingredient makes it a super premium.

This is a Premium food

Contains:
Brown Rice (min 54%), Lamb (min 21%), Oats, Peas, Sunflower Oil, Seaweed, Vitamins and Minerals

As rice is the main ingredient so cannot be classed as a super premium.

Lastly the Complete food

Ingredients
Cereals, Meat and animal derivatives (Minimum 4% fresh meat in the soft moist kernel, minimum 4% beef in the natural and brown kernels), Vegetable protein extracts, Oils and fats, Derivatives of vegetable origin (0.5% beet pulp in the natural and brown kernels), Various sugars, Minerals, Vegetables (minimum 4% vegetables in the green and yellow kernels). With antioxidants, coloured with and preserved with EC additives.

With Cereal being its first ingredient it makes this product about half the price of the super premium

Does this make more sense? So its really about the quality of the ingredients put into the foods that allows the companies to brand there products with the super premium/premium label,

But I do take your point about any dog food can call it self a premium or super premium.
jonnythan On August 02, 2014
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#79New Post! Sep 23, 2009 @ 20:39:34
I'm not concerned about "typical" ingredients of British pet food. I really don't care.

I was just pointing out that the definitions used to categorize pet food into 3 quality tiers are pathetically insufficient to be meaningful.

Assuming those were actual definitions and not something you just made up....
magically_delicious On October 27, 2020




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#80New Post! Sep 24, 2009 @ 21:38:03
Animal feed in european countries is usually better than in the U.S., generally speaking. Orijen, which many people have mentioned, comes from superior pets which is in Canada. Natura was created by a couple who moved from Europe to try and establish higher standards for pet food in the U.S. Nutro, in the U.S., primarily makes premium pet food, the exception being the "Max" line, but Natural Choice and Ultra are both pet store only feed. And they both totally suck in my opinion, ESPECIALLY because of how overpriced they are.
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