Compare Your Brand of Dog Food
to Life's Abundance Premium Health Food

 Favorable

Life's Abundance

Nutro
Natural Choice

Science
Diet Adult Maintenance

Flint River Oven Baked Puppy/Adult

Purina One Adult Chicken & Rice Formula

Purina Beneful

Iams Adult Lamb Meal & Rice

Eukanuba Adult Maintenance

Alpo

 Unfavorable

Look at the First 3 Ingredients - They Often Make Up the Principal Components of a Food

First Three Ingredients
Corn, wheat, gluten & soy are generally inferior sources of protein.  They are often difficult to digest & to use by the body.  Also can cause G.I. problems. Meat & bone meal can contain an unknown quality of bone, which is an inferior protein.  

Chicken Meal
(hormone & steriod free)

Lamb Meal

Chicken

Chicken Meal

Chicken

Ground Yellow Corn

Lamb Meal

Chicken

Ground Yellow Corn

Ground Brown Rice

Ground Rice

Corn Meal

Whole Wheat Flour

Brewers Rice

Chicken By-product meal

Brewers Rice

Chicken Byproduct Meal

Beef & Bone Meal

Potato Product

Rice Bran

Ground Grain Sorghum

Ground Rice

Whole Grain Corn

Corn  Gluten Meal

Corn Meal

Corn Meal

Soybean meal

Watch Out for Harmful Chemicals & Unsavory Byproducts

Preservatives
Can be very harmful

Mixed Tocopherols

Mixed Tocopherols

BHA, BHT

Mixed Tocopherols

Mixed Tocopherols

Mixed Tocopherols

Mixed Tocopherols

Mixed Tocopherols

BHA

By-products
Generally inferior sources of protein

none

none

yes

none

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Artificial Dyes Many vets believe they are linked to health problems

none

none

none

none

none

Yellow 5, Red 40, Yellow 6, Blue 2

none

none

Red 40

Look for Powerful Health Promoting Ingredients

Probiotics
Good for Digestive & Immune System

yes

none

none

none

none

none

none

none

none

Antioxidants
Vital to Good Health (Grapeseed Extract powerful source)

yes
Grapeseed
Extract

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Chelated Minerals
Better absorbed

yes

none

none

yes

none

none

none

none

none

Vegetables
Excellent Source of Antioxidants & Phytonutrients

yes

none

none

none

none

yes

none

none

none

Food Rating*

10

7

4

7

5

3

5

4

1

Cost to Feed and Cost Delivered to Your Door

Cost Per Cup
Based on the number of Cups in Each Bag

$0.29

$0.17

$0.19

$0.31**

$0.17

$0.13

$0.18

$0.21

$0.09

Daily Feeding Amount
Based on 50 lb dog

2 cups

3.5 cups

3.25 cups

2.5 cups

2.5 cups

3.33 cups

2.5 cups

2 cups

3.5 cups

Daily Cost to Feed Based on feeding amounts & #  of cups/ bag

$0.59

$0.58

$0.60

$0.77**

$0.42

$0.43

$0.45

$0.43

$0.31

Total Cost
to Feed + Shipping

$0.70

$0.86

$0.86

$0.77

$0.67

$0.67

$0.62

$0.61

$0.60

Food Rating*

10

7

4

7

5

3

5

4

1

*Rating: Each food starts with 10 points. 1 point is deducted for each unfavorable ingredient or lack of a health-promoting ingredient.

Life's Abundance

Nutro
Natural Choice

Science
Diet Adult Maintenance

Flint River Oven Baked Puppy/Adult

Purina One Adult Chicken & Rice Formula

Purina Beneful

Iams Adult Lamb Meal & Rice

Eukanuba Adult Maintenance

Alpo