[MY OSCAR]

Originally Posted by mimimomo

This food has too much legumes...legumes highers their pH level (veggies & fruits are alkaline & highers the pH), dog's should have a slightly acidic level (protein from meats are acidic). In other words, the protein comes mainly from other sources other than meat. They are splitting ingredients to push the meat ingredient higher up on the ingredient list.
Ingredient Splitting -- The Pet Food Industry's Dirty Little Secret

For example, I'm looking @ turkey formula, it has turkey, turkey meal (ingredient splitting to make it look like there's a lot of turkey in there, but in fact is not true) & then followed by peas, pea flour, chickpeas & followed by pea protein (too many legumes, along w/ingredient splitting to push the turkey higher up the list but in fact, there are very high amounts of peas/ legumes in this food). I think dried beet pulp is also another plant source protein...but a good fiber.

More & more, these new companies are coming up w/'grain free', 'low glycemic index'...3 of my guys has a high pH & 2 of them have struvite crystals. I don't think the crystals are caused by their food, but their high pH is. It's imperative that I keep their pH levels down since they have crystals, otherwise they'll develop stones. I was able to get Momo's pH down a little to normal range, he was on prescription Hill's C/D (urinary tract health), it has no legumes, veggies or fruits. But it has corn & soy. Go figure, I thought I'd never feed them anything w/animal by-products in it either loll! Of course, every dog is different.

i do respect your opinion but what i think is : there is no ONE perfect dog food.. there will always be someone who will find something wrong ..
i like the ingredients in this food so i am going to give it try....