Abady Dog Food Review

The Robert Abady Dog Food Company offers several different varieties of food aimed at various categories. For example, there's the Giant Breed and Large Breed Growth Formula versions, and their classic Maintenance and Stress formula. The food is a dried dog food product.

As most responsible dog owners know, choosing a good food for your dog is vital for their health and happiness. Most people know enough about dried dog foods to be aware that they should always look at the list of ingredients on the packaging, with one of the main things to look for being the meat content. Generally speaking, you should always make sure that the product has a pretty high meat content. Meat products should always be present in the top few ingredients of the food, but it might also be necessary to check that when they are, they are meat meal ingredients rather than being inclusive of water. The water content of a meat ingredient can make up about 80% of its total weight, so when you remove that, you'll often find that the ingredient should really be placed much further down in the list. This is problematic if this is the only meat product on the list. If, however, it is closely followed by another meat product, it isn't really a big deal.

 

In most of the Adaby dried food products, the first and third ingredients are named meat products in the form of meal. This is a positive sign – however, what lets this brand down quite significantly is that any other meat products present in the food are listed as “by-products”. By-products are usually unidentifiable, but it's fair enough to say that they are made up of the parts of animals that are of no nutritional benefit whatsoever – including, as horrifying as this might seem, hoof, hair, manure, and other indigestible ingredients. By-products are not always of such low quality, but unless the manufacturer specifically states their source, it is impossible to ascertain what the quality is of the by-products being used. This is, sadly, the case with Adaby's dried foods. It is impossible to know whether the by-products are safe or whether they contain 4-D and other condemned meats.

Not only this, but the named fish meal product contained in most varieties of this food does not seem to carry any guarantee from the manufacturers that its protein ingredients are free from ethoxyquin. This is a chemical preservative which is actually banned in human foods because of beliefs that it may be carcinogenic. If this is the case, it certainly shouldn't be allowed in dog foods. It's always best to make sure that this chemical has definitely not been added to any fish ingredients you find listed on dog food packaging. Adaby foods also use synthetic vitamin K, which many people choose to avoid giving their dogs because it has been linked to liver problems.

In other ingredients, the main grain used in the Adaby foods is a fairly good quality white rice. However, despite this good grain content and the relatively good amount of meat products and meat-related products contained in the foods, the unidentifiable source ingredients and the very low quality by-products and fillers make this brand much less recommended than it would be with more clearly identified ingredients and higher quality products.

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