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Originally Posted by Ellie May  Chicken meal is supposed to be chicken with the water removed which is actually better than just chicken because they can count the water weight and put the chicken first on the ingredient list. Now that's what it is supposed to be but who knows what some companies are doing. You really have to trust the company to decide what to feed. |
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Named meat products in the meal form are exclusive of the water content whereas meat products NOT in the meal formare inclusive of water content, and therefore would be more accurately listed further down the ingredient list once the water content is removed. So basically, if the first ingredient is Chicken, and no other named meat products are listed, there is a very low meat content (cheap) and you'll see something like Corn Gluten Meal used as a protein source instead of meats.
Meat by-products are what you'll want to avoid.
Hope that helps.