Worst dog food challenge!

[ACooper]

The Ole' Roy thread made ponder the question: Is Ole Roy THE WORST dog food out there, or is there something even lower than Ole Roy?

So here's the challenge. Find and post THE WORST dog food (along with ingredients) you can find. Include the price if you can because honestly, if a food has equally bad ingredients as Ole Roy but costs more..........well then, I'd count it as being worse.

Ready, set, QUEST!

 

[PlottMom]

Doggy bag!!!

$13.99 for a 40lb bag!

Ingredients:
Wheat Middlings, Ground Yellow Corn, Meat and Bone Meal, soybean Meal, Calcium Carbonate, Animal fat (preserved with BHA and citric acid), Animal Digest Salt, Choline Chloride, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate , Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Oxide, Manganous Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Niacin, Biotin, Vitamin A Acetate, Calcium Pantothenate, Thiamine Mononitrate (source of Vitamin B1), Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of vitamin B6), Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (source of vitamin K activity), Riboflavin Supplement (source of vitamin B2), Vitamin D Supplement, Cobalt Carbonate, Folic Acid.


My rescue director couldnt even get the raccoons to eat it...

 

[ACooper]

Oh, and the ingredients and price for Ole Roy Complete Nutrition:

Ingredients: Ground yellow corn, meat and bone meal, soybean meal, chicken by-product meal, wheat middlings, animal fat [preserved with BHA and citric acid], natural flavor, brewers rice, salt, calcium carbonate, potassium chloride, choline chloride, color added [red #40, yellow #5, blue #2], zinc sulfate, vitamin E supplement, ferrous sulfate, zinc oxide, niacin, copper sulfate, vitamin A supplement, biotin, manganous oxide, calcium pantothenate, vitamin B12 supplement, thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, menadione sodium bisulfite complex [source of vitamin K activity], riboflavin supplement, sodium selenite, calcium iodate, folic acid, vitamin D3 supplement, cobalt carbonate

Current price (just checked on Walmart.com) is $16.88 for a 44lb bag.....so approximately .38 cents per pound.

 

[Kayota]

I can't find ingredients online, but Twin Pet is the worst of the worst IMO... $5 for 15 lbs... What a deal... NOT... Can you imagine what's in it at that price?

My mom feeds Old Yeller... Kroger version of Ol Roy based on the ingredients, it seems. She always says it's better...

Ground yellow corn, meat and bone meal, soybean meal, poultry by-product meal, wheat middlings, animal fat (preserved with BHA), animal digest, brewers rice, salt, brewers dried yeast, brewers dried grains, dried whey, propionic acid (a preservative), choline chloride, calcium carbonate, rice mill by-product, ferrous sulfate, zinc oxide, vitamin A/D3/E/B12 supplement, red 40, manganous oxide, copper sulfate, niacin supplement, calcium pantothenate, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of vitamin K activity), ethylenediamine dihydriodide, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin supplement, colbalt carbonate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, biotin, sodium selenite

 

[PlottMom]

I win! Meat & bone meal are THIRD on mine, AND it's 34.9 cents/lb

 

[SaraB]

What the heck are "wheat middlings"?

 

[Kayota]

Sweepings from the floor of a grain mill...

 

[Psyfalcon]

The stuff left over from wheat milling.

"Wheat middlings or wheat mill run, stated by AAFCO, is coarse and fine particles of wheat bran and fine particles of wheat shorts, wheat germ, wheat flour and offal from the "tail of the mill"." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_middlings

We don't even eat that. I guess we should, as its the rest that is left in the whole wheat. Seems to be a decent part of an herbivore diet though.

 

[thehoundgirl]

I am not sure if it's worse than Ol'roy probably just as bad.. but people buying kibbles and bits makes me cringe. A lot of dyes and crap in there!

From http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-reviews/kibbles-n-bits-dog-food-dry/

Ingredients: corn, soybean meal, beef and bone meal, ground wheat flour, animal fat (BHA used as preservative), corn syrup, wheat middlings, water sufficient for processing, animal digest (source of chicken flavor), propylene glycol, salt, hydrochloric acid, potassium chloride, caramel color, sorbic acid (used as a preservative), sodium carbonate, minerals (ferrous sulfate, zinc oxide, manganous oxide, copper sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite), choline chloride, vitamins (vitamin E supplement, vitamin A supplement, niacin supplement, D-calcium pantothenate, riboflavin supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamine mononitrate, vitamin D3 supplement, folic acid, biotin, vitamin B12 supplement), calcium sulfate, titanium dioxide, yellow 5, yellow 6, red 40, BHA (used as a preservative), dl methionine

 

[joce]

Gravy trains gotta be as bad. Fed it once when we ran out because I think they sold it at the gas station( like a mini mall here!). Only had my husky then. Gravy was the end result!

 

[Freehold]

Don't know what the brand was, and I don't think we have the ingredient list, but my dad bought this super-cheap stuff at the co-op. They were out, so my mom fed a bit and the dogs immediately began having serious runs. Looking at the ingredients, I don't think there was ANY meat in it at all... The worst I've ever seen by far.

 

[AllieMackie]

Doggy bag!!!

$13.99 for a 40lb bag!

Ingredients:
Wheat Middlings, Ground Yellow Corn, Meat and Bone Meal, soybean Meal, Calcium Carbonate, Animal fat (preserved with BHA and citric acid), Animal Digest Salt, Choline Chloride, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate , Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Oxide, Manganous Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Niacin, Biotin, Vitamin A Acetate, Calcium Pantothenate, Thiamine Mononitrate (source of Vitamin B1), Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of vitamin B6), Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (source of vitamin K activity), Riboflavin Supplement (source of vitamin B2), Vitamin D Supplement, Cobalt Carbonate, Folic Acid.


My rescue director couldnt even get the raccoons to eat it...

^ There's a REALLY similar ingredient food to this at one of our local feed stores... the food is in a bag made of similar material to a potato sack. Plain off-white with plain black lettering. "Farmland Dog Feed" or something like that.

Best? It's sold RIGHT next to TOTW. wtf?

 

[SaraB]

^ There's a REALLY similar ingredient food to this at one of our local feed stores... the food is in a bag made of similar material to a potato sack. Plain off-white with plain black lettering. "Farmland Dog Feed" or something like that.

Best? It's sold RIGHT next to TOTW. wtf?

I like how it's called feed like it's a livestock diet.

 

[PlottMom]

^ There's a REALLY similar ingredient food to this at one of our local feed stores... the food is in a bag made of similar material to a potato sack. Plain off-white with plain black lettering. "Farmland Dog Feed" or something like that.

Best? It's sold RIGHT next to TOTW. wtf?

YES! Doggy bag is also fed in a plastic-ish livestock feed bag! It's like pig feed...

 

[AllieMackie]

I like how it's called feed like it's a livestock diet.

I know right? I forget if it was "Farmland" or what, but it was definitely "Dog Feed". That's what caught my eye and made me go "oh god what's in this". :rofl1:

 

[Shai]

I like how it's called feed like it's a livestock diet.

Well legally speaking all dog food is classified as feed, not food. But yeah they doesn't even make the effort to call it "food" to pretend they care

 

[ihartgonzo]

I remember seeing this at the grocery store when I was 13, and being like "seriously?!"... Ew the ingredients are awful. It probably tastes better than Ol Roy though. And it cost a LOT, only sold in cereal-sized boxes.

Ingredients: Whole Grain Ground Corn, Sorghum Grain, Oat Groats, Brewers Rice, Beet Pulp, Chicken Fat (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols a source of Vitamin E), Natural Liver Flavor, Flaxseed Meal, Dried Egg Product, Ocean Fish Meal, Potassium Chloride, Sodium Chloride, Dried Brewers Yeast, Choline Chloride, L-Ascorbyl-2 Phosphate (Source of Vitamin C), Taurine, L-Carnitine, Vitamin E Supplement, Iron Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Zinc Proteinate, Niacin, Copper Sulfate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Sulfate, Manganese Proteinate, Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin A Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin B-12 Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (Source of Vitamin K Activity), Vitamin D-3 Supplement, Folic Acid, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide, Sodium Selenite, Cobalt Carbonate, Biotin

 

[ACooper]

OMG.........I think Gonzo just took the lead from Plott!

Ack! Chicken fat (6th place)....natural liver flavor?? (7th place) egg product (9th place), and the only actual 'meat' is the fish meal in 10th place!

So, WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER Gonzo! And after THAT dog food, you would NEED that chicken dinner! LOL

That little gem is going to be very hard to beat! LOL

 

[PlottMom]

...yet something about my dogs having their own breakfast cereal box is oddly inviting... lol

 

[ACooper]

...yet something about my dogs having their own breakfast cereal box is oddly inviting... lol

I know! LOL, That would be awesome if it were a healthy choice for them! Get to work and make one Plott! hahahaha