Artemis Maximal Dog Food Review

This is an excellent food for the fact that it contains no grains. Grains in dog food are unnecessary, because they are not part of a natural canine diet. Despite this, many foods contain them – so it's great to see a product that excludes them completely. In fact, it does not contain a single unnecessary, controversial, or low quality ingredient, which sets it apart from the majority as a superior quality dog food. Instead of being filled with unnatural ingredients, it has an impressively high meat content compared to other foods.

This is all great news for your dog! Too many commercial pet foods are sneakily packed with “filler” ingredients, which range from the unnecessary to the downright harmful. Feeding a higher quality, more natural, purer food can seem rather more expensive than picking up an economy brand, but the much higher nutrient concentration means that you need to feed your dog much smaller amounts of the food (in the case of this particular food, a 50lb dog needs about 2.5 cups), thus saving you money in the long run. 

 

Artemis Company Artemis Maximal Dog is extremely high in proteins – a very good thing, but also worth taking into consideration if you have a larger breed of dog. The protein content is a bit too much for young dogs, so it's probably only really suitable for adult dogs, especially for those larger breeds.

The meat content of the food seems to be excellent quality. When choosing a dog food, you should always check the list of ingredients on the packaging – they are listed in order of weight (this is a legal requirement), and the first ingredient should always be a meat product. There is a named meat product listed as the first ingredient of this particular food, which indicates that the food does contain a good amount of meat. There's another meat ingredient further down the list, but this one contains about 80% water so it's not a major consideration in terms of the product's overall meat content.

One small concern to note is that the third ingredient of this food is fat. Research has indicated that products containing fat in the top four listed ingredients is likely to increase the risk of bloat in larger breed dogs (smaller breeds being untested at this point). However, on the whole, this product seems like a very good, high quality combination of healthy ingredients. Being completely grainless gives it a major advantage over many other varieties, and the nutrients in the food come from excellent healthy sources. There's a very good range of probiotics, as well as whole eggs and plenty of fruit and vegetable ingredients, and the main source of carbohydrates is potatoes. All in all, a good quality and very healthy dog food. You can buy it online here.

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