what fish are you feeding?
when you are looking at ingredients, they "by law" must be listed in order of percent content......in other words, the first ingredient may be 30% of the entire bag, the second ingredient 25%, etc.
the main way this is helpful is to see if the label actually matches the ingredients, and many times it doesnt
some of the foods out there have an extremely elaborate label, but have the same ingredients as any other food.
i dont buy "bio-blend" foods from marienland for this reason.......they claim to be "scientifically blended" whatever the hell that means, and lo-and-behold the first ingredient of this food is the generic "fishmeal" followed up by wheat flour, soybean meal......sounds like every other food to me.
i am not bashing the food or the company, but there is no way i will pay that much money for food where the main ingredient is "fishmeal"
omega one foods seem farily promising, listing things like "whole cod, whiting, etc." other than "fish meal" .....the problem is i cant get any of my fish to actually eat the stuff
i do the same thing with cat food on a tip from allthingsanimal -
have you ever read the ingredients of a bag of cat food?
on the cheaper ones the first ingredient is usually "dried yellow corn"
wait a minute, werent cats carnivores though? *crazysmil
i look for "poultry product" or "chicken ----" as the first ingredient of my cat food.
another thing that is funny to note is that many of those cat foods are cut into little colorful shapes, etc.......but cats are colorblind
the companies make them that way to look good to HUMANS, not cats.....kind of silly really.