On their website it says:
LifeSource Bits help your pet maintain a healthy oxidative balance with their high potency of vitamins and minerals, but rest assured that even if your pet eats around them, he or she is still getting a nutritionally complete diet. Since our kibble also contains fruits and vegetables that have antioxidants, your pet is still obtaining a healthy level of all the nutrients he or she needs, even if he or she eats only the kibble.
I'm not quite sure how it's still balanced after leaving out the concentrated forms of the vitamins and minerals but that is what they claim (unless the Life Source Bits are just extra vitamins and minerals that aren't necessary with a complete kibble). I have also found that the bits aren't always evenly distributed in the bag and a lot of times I'll throw out some of the Life Source Bits if I can't mix them in and distribute them evenly. I pour out a week's worth of food into a resealable container that I pull daily meals from and some weeks I'll find hardly any bits and some weeks I'll find waaaaay too many. I do try to mix them up in the bag to redistribute but I don't think I'd want to feed a big bowl primarily comprised of those even though my pups don't pick them out.
It seems so common that a lot of dogs eat around the Life Source Bits, I've always wondered why BB doesn't just do away with them. |