Professional Dog Food?

[kelbel]

Has anyone ever heard of the dog food brand "Professional"?

I had never heard of it but I saw it today when I was looking for a new food for my dog. The ingredients looked pretty decent. Any opinions on it?

Ingredients
Chicken, chicken meal, cracked pearled barley, millet, brewers rice, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), beet pulp, natural chicken flavor, flaxseed, fish meal, potassium chloride, salt, choline chloride, dried chicory root, glucosamine hydrochloride, vitamin E supplement, iron proteinate, zinc proteinate, yucca schidigera extract, copper proteinate, ferrous sulfate, zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, potassium iodide, thiamine mononitrate, manganese proteinate, manganous oxide, chondroitin sulfate, ascorbic acid, vitamin A supplement, biotin, calcium pantothenate, manganese sulfate, sodium selenite, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), vitamin B12 supplement, riboflavin, vitamin D supplement, folic acid.

I didn't buy it. I'm going to try Eagle Pack Holistic's Chicken Meal and Rice. My dog was starting to get loose stools on the Canidae.

 

[Dani]

It looks ok, except for the brewer's rice (not very nutritious), beet pulp (filler), and fish meal (unspecified).

 

[mrose_s]

it doesn't look great to me.
chicken meal, fish meal, the barley etc say red light to me.
but i don't know heaps and heaps sorry

we use natures gift, its the best of 2 brand in australia.
its ingrediant list reads as follows
fresh beef (or lamb, veal, chicken deending on the falvour), australian meat meals, whole grain wheat, sucrose, rice, food acis (338), glycerine, sea salt, caola oil, calcium, chicory root (inulin), flax seed, pottassium sorbate, natural colours, natural antioxidants, (307), added vitamins and minerals incl. COpper 10mg/kg, vitamin A 10300iu/kg, vitamin D 441 iu,/kg, vitamin E iu/kg

the other brand said to be up high on the health chart is eagle pack

here is a copy of their ingrediants list - for the original adult type
Pork Meal, Ground Yellow Corn, Ground Brown Rice, Ground White Rice, Chicken Meal, Chicken Fat (Preserved With Natural Mixed Tocopherols), Dried Beet Pulp, Anchovy & Sardine Meals, Oatmeal, Brewers Dried Yeast, Flaxseed, Wheat Germ Meal, Dried Egg Product, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Carrots, Peas, Yucca Schidigera Extract, DL-Methionine, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, d-Pantothenic Acid, Niacin Supplement, Choline Chloride, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Thiamine Mononitrate, Folic Acid, Ascorbic Acid, Biotin, Lecithin, Rosemary Extract, Inositol, Kelp, Polysaccharide Complexes Of Zinc, Iron, Manganese, Copper and Cobalt, Potassium Iodate, Sodium Selenite, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus casei, Enterococcus faecium, B. subtilus, Bacillus licheniformis, Bacillus coagulins, Aspergillus oryzae, and Aspergillus niger.

 

[Maxy24]

it doesn't look great to me.
chicken meal, fish meal, the barley etc say red light to me.

Chicken Mel is a good thing. I think a lot of people mix meal up with by products. Fish meal is bad though since it does not say what kind of fish, brewers rice is not great either and salt is kind of high on the list. This food is much better than say Pedigree but could be better IMO. Check this out http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?page=badingredients

 

[ACooper]

Mroses, Eagle Pack and Eagle Pack holistic are very different in ingredients. I have never usesd it, but I have looked on the bags at one time. They actually make it pretty close to where I live

And also Mroses, I would be concerned with a few ing in your dog food........sucrose (sugar), glycerene (thickening agent), food acis (couldn't even find what this was),

The only main concern I would have with the Professional ing list is the SALT that is pretty high up there. I don't like it that the TYPE of fish isn't listed either. Brewers rice has no nutrition at all.
Chicken meal is a good thing, it means it is ground up and dried, measured into the food at dry weight so you actually get MORE meat without the water.

 

[Renee750il]

Just from a quick read, I'd be inclined to go with the second of the two brands, Eagle Pack, rather than the first.