Chicken has been considered by many pet owners as the superior ingredient to chicken meal. But is it really? That was what I had thought. Is the first ingredient in your pet food chicken?
The chicken is basically taking a roaster and grinding it up and that could include muscle, skin and bones. The water content average, however, is around 70-80%, fat about 5% and the rest protein at only about 15%. You are paying for water as your first ingredient and your pet is getting very little protein. This also lowers the nutrient dense content of the food so the serving size would be more.
Chicken meal, on the other hand, is the chicken but with the water removed so that it is only about 10-20% water and the rest is protein. It can come in a lot of different qualities. It can have a lot of bone or a little bone. Life's Abundance chicken is the best quality that you can buy. Our chicken meal is a very digestible protein and it has a high biological value. Life's Abundance chicken meal is the breast meat and thigh meat.
Low Quality Meat Meal:
You do want to avoid anonymous meat meals and ingredients with the following:
- Includes the words “by-products” in its name
- Fails to identify the specific source animal
Here are some examples of inferior meat-based protein ingredients. Notice the generic nature of the phrases:
- Meat meal
- Animal meal
- Chicken by-product meal
- Meat and bone meal
- Glandular meal
- Poultry meal
- Blood meal
Summary:
Pound for pound, chicken meal will provide more nutrients and protein than chicken.
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