I don't feed Purina One because it has a ton of corn (two kinds in the first three ingredients - makes up most of the food), brewer's rice, by-products and because of the preservatives.
I wouldn't consider the human-grade dog foods to be "designer". I consider them to be better for my dog. I feed Chicken Soup and it's not expensive at all. I'd rather pay a couple more dollars for a bag and get something that I feel is a great food.
It is important to read the ingredient label. Brewer's rice is low-quality small fragments left when the kernels of rice are separated. Corn is a known allergen for dogs. Corn gluten meal is a cheap protein source. Poultry by-product meal is parts of the carcasses of slaughtered poultry from turkeys, ducks, geese, buzzards, etc. It is a low quality inconsistent ingredient that has NO standard. Animal digest is heated broth from unspecified animals that can be obtained from any animal source so there is no control over the quality or contamination. There are a lot of dog foods on the market do not have negative ingredients; they're not that expensive compared to Purina One or Science Diet or Eukanuba and can be found at any feed store.
Ingredients of the Purina ONE Beef and Rice:
Beef, brewers rice, whole grain corn, corn gluten meal, poultry by-product meal, oat meal, beef tallow preserved with mixed-tocopherols (source of Vitamin E), whole grain wheat, fish meal, natural flavors, defluorinated phosphate, potassium chloride, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, salt, choline chloride, vitamin supplements (E, A, B-12, D-3), zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, riboflavin supplement, niacin, calcium pantothenate, manganese sulfate, biotin, thiamine mononitrate, folic acid, pyridoxine hydrochloride, garlic oil, copper sulfate, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), calcium iodate, sodium selenite.
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