Rachael Ray's dogfood

Nutrish reply to my email

I recently emailed NUTRISH about some of their ingredients...(corn ..gluten). I want to share their response with you all. I bet you will be surprised .. I KNOW I WAS!!!!


Thank you for your suggestions, we do take our consumer's comments very seriously & strive to make a great product. Below I would like to clear up any false information that you may have heard about our ingredients.

Brewers Rice -- When you go to the grocery store and buy rice for your family's meals you are likely purchasing long grain white rice where the rice particles themselves are perfect and uniform in shape. The only difference between the long grain white rice you buy in the grocery store for your family and the ingredient "Brewers Rice" is the actual size and shape of the rice particle itself - Brewer's Rice particles are smaller and are often not uniform in size and shape. Since we grind the grains in our pet food into flour before we cook the recipe, the size and shape of the rice particle is of no concern to us nor does it affect the quality of the finished product. This is another common misperception about pet food ingredients.

The manufacturing of cornstarch and corn oil results in the concentration of protein that is called Corn Gluten Meal. The perception that Corn Gluten Meal is a "cheap way" to boost protein levels in a pet food is false. Corn Gluten Meal is actually quite costly as it is a highly concentrated protein source. Even more, dogs actually need amino acids for 100% complete and balanced nutrition. A dog food formula with mixed protein sources from both animal and plant sources, such as Rachael Ray Nutrish (tm) delivers both digestibility and a balanced amino acid profile.

Carbohydrates can come from various sources in super premium dog food products including corn, rice or wheat. Rachael Ray Nutrish (tm) uses whole grain corn in our formulation - listed on the ingredient panel as "corn meal." Whole grain corn is very digestible - and, in fact, performs as well as rice. An added benefit of using whole grain corn is that it delivers the essential fatty acid linoleic acid, as well as isoflavones, and other antioxidant nutrients.

Through many years of our own research we have found that these ingredients in moderation are not fillers but, actually help contribute to a very healthy pet.



These statements pretty much go against all other info we have learned (well everything I have learned).

What are your thoughts about their response??
 
I haven't heard of Rachel R. food..LOL @ EVOO
I have heard that Ellen Degeneres has a dog food too...but I don't know any thing about it...Will Oprah be next?? LOL

My Clancy was "allergic" to corn..he would get itchy and sometimes throw up yellow bile...blech...

Either he really isn't allergic or they can grow out of it?? Cuz the food he is eating now has some corn in it...he is doing fine with it.

Not all foods are easy to get in all areas...so all we can do is get the best food that we can in our area's of the world...

My husband works for a parent company of a dog food company...he doesn't work directly with that part of the company..but he has done inspections of their facilities...he says it was cleaner then some people food plants he's been too..LOL and he said that they had meetings and there were dogs and cats in the meetings..the employees can bring their pets to work..and they have the run of the place..I would love to work their!! (the meetings weren't in the plants where they make the food...can you imagine how big the hairnets would have to be?? LOL)

woofs

Julie
 
I personally would not feed the food.I have however back some time ago,fed Earnhardt Halo.Which is Ellen's food.He loved it.In comparison the canned food is so very simaler to Merricks canned product. I mean it smells good enough for you to eat it.
I totally like the product,but what swayed me against using it regualarly was it is not available to me.I can order it from QVC,or go to Halo's site.But shipping on top of the high price itself,was enough for us not to continue.

I do believe if memory serves me correctly,there are a few folks that have feed Halo here on the forum.

If you want to try Halo..go to QVC,search for pet foods.And Ellens picture will be there.They have some awesome pricing on a bundle package.It includes canned,dry,and maybe Liv-A-Littles treats.

Those are something that I am sure every dog will love.It is dry chicken.All pure chicken.

They do need refridgeration,but these puppers here love them.And if they can get past Bumper(she loves them to) I'm sure any dog or cat would eat them.
 
I was just surprised that NUTRISH says how great corn and gluten are for our dogs and that i was misinformed.

Brewers rice is just like the rice we eat..yeah right !!
NUTRISH has a completely different view than pretty much the rest of the informed word IMO.
 
SheltieGuy said:
I was just surprised that NUTRISH says how great corn and gluten are for our dogs and that i was misinformed.

Brewers rice is just like the rice we eat..yeah right !!
NUTRISH has a completely different view than pretty much the rest of the informed word IMO.
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Cause it's Rachel Ray..that's why.Heaven fobid something should get in the way of her image~ Everyone knows she's a dog lover,and folks just probably think well since Isaboo is in her commercials,she feeds the dog her product.But it does'nt have to mean it's healthy food,or one tht is good for a dog.

Think back to the vet that's here in town...How do we really know what Rachel feeds Isaboo?? For all we know she feeds raw or perhaps something else.Its any thing to promote her image~
 
I think Ellen owns part of the company Halo. I used to feed Katie the spots stew dry kibble it was a good low carb high protein food for her cancer. I used to give them spots stew canned off and on as an extra food source. I did get the recipe for it. They loved that.
 
mbfrench said:
Cause it's Rachel Ray..that's why.Heaven fobid something should get in the way of her image~ Everyone knows she's a dog lover,and folks just probably think well since Isaboo is in her commercials,she feeds the dog her product.But it does'nt have to mean it's healthy food,or one tht is good for a dog.

Think back to the vet that's here in town...How do we really know what Rachel feeds Isaboo?? For all we know she feeds raw or perhaps something else.Its any thing to promote her image~
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you are sooo right!!


Im sure RR has no idea what ingredients go into NUTRISH and i am willing to bet she doesnt feed her dog it either.
 
I don't buy that Nutrish is a good quality food. It goes against pretty much all of the research out there.
Of course, marketing is going to spin whatever tale they want to sell the food. Why would they want to present their food in a bad light, regardless of facts?
Kind of reminds me of those cigarette awareness commercials on MTV.... you know, the one where they ask the interviewee if they would be willing to lie to the consumer and all when talking about the effects of cigarettes
 
HopeShelties said:
I don't buy that Nutrish is a good quality food. It goes against pretty much all of the research out there.
Of course, marketing is going to spin whatever tale they want to sell the food. Why would they want to present their food in a bad light, regardless of facts?
Kind of reminds me of those cigarette awareness commercials on MTV.... you know, the one where they ask the interviewee if they would be willing to lie to the consumer and all when talking about the effects of cigarettes
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lol well that pretty much sums up the email i got from NUTRISH.... total BS... i guess they are hoping I will fall for the RR hype!
 
Rachel Ray has a pretty good balance of ingredients. But I have one thing against it...
It contains Menadione (Vitamin K3) which is a synthetic chemical that is supposed to have the same blood clotting factors as Vitamin K1. My concern is that Menadione Bisulfate has been banned for human use and clinical studies have shown that it does not have the same affect on blood clotting as Vitamin K1 in fact it has little to no blood clotting properties.

Also healthy dogs do not need the aid of Vitamin K1 for blood clotting and AAFCO does not require it as an addative... The only dogs that do require Vitamin K are those with VWD and they need K1 not K3 as it is not affective in them.

All I can advise anyone looking for a decent dog food is read the labels!

Hugs
Judy
 
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