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Originally Posted by bchgirl

Actually those ingrediants read very very closely to Beneful Prepared meals.

Chicken formula...

Water sufficient for processing, chicken, wheat gluten, liver, white rice, green beans, meat by-products, corn starch-modified, carrots, wild rice, artificial and natural flavors, calcium phosphate, salt, soy flour, potassium chloride, added color, tricalcium phosphate, zinc sulfate, choline chloride, Vitamin E supplement, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, copper sulfate, manganese sulfate, Vitamin A supplement, niacin, calcium pantothenate, Vitamin B-12 supplement, riboflavin supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, potassium iodide, Vitamin D-3 supplement, folic acid, sodium selenite, biotin

Let me first say that I'm not endorsing this food, rather that it looks to be of above average quality, to me. And let me say that I home cook now, but have fed Wellness, California Natural, and Natural Balance in the past before I started home cooking. (I have a nutritionist who has balanced my home cooking.) Oh, and I also tried Nature's Variety Raw Chicken for just one day, which Bella didn't care for much, but I would have tried it longer had there not been extenuating circumstances.

I don't think they look very close to Beneful's meals at all considering none of the red (flags) are ingredients. "Meat-by-product" takes it entirely out of the same category as Halo to me. I would say that many consider Wellness a quality food, and even though some prefer not to feed grains and some prefer not to feed veggies (though most grain-free diets still include veggies), that is really a preference. Here is the ingredient list for Wellness' Small Breed Adult formula:

Deboned Turkey, Chicken Meal, Salmon Meal, Oatmeal, Ground Brown Rice, Ground Barley, Rye Flour, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols, a natural source of Vitamin E), Menhaden Fish Meal, Tomato Pomace, Natural Chicken Flavor, Pea Fiber, Tomatoes, Salmon Oil, Ground Flaxseed, Carrots, Spinach, Sweet Potatoes, Apples, Blueberries, Potassium Chloride, Minerals [Zinc Sulfate, Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Ferrous Sulfate, Copper Proteinate, Copper Sulfate, Manganese Proteinate, Manganese Sulfate, Sodium Selenite], Vitamins [Beta-Carotene, Vitamin E Supplement, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Vitamin A Supplement, Niacin, Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin, Vitamin D-3 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Thiamine Mononitrate, Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin B-12 Supplement], Choline Chloride, Taurine, Mixed Tocopherols (a natural preservative), Chicory Root Extract, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Chondroitin Sulfate, Dried Lactobacillus plantarum, Enterococcus faecium, Lactobacillus casei, Lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation products.

Halo looks much closer to that to me....