Premium Dog Food
What is the difference between premium, super-premium, and ultra-premium dog food?
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What is the difference between premium, super premium and ultra premium dog food? Premium dog food is a term often used to describe higher quality dog food, but what does it really mean? If we tell you right at the beginning that there is no legal regulation that says what can be declared as premium dog food or super premium dog food, do you even care what is behind those words?
Premium dog food is a marketing categorization of products. Any pet food manufacturer can call their food by these names. Such names do not guarantee the quality of the product and do not have to meet any special conditions. It is about marketing categorization. If we take fuel for comparison, fuel that has the name 'premium' must have a higher octane value than regular fuel. This is not the case with pet food either. It is common for manufacturers to claim that super premium dog food is better than premium dog food. Mainly because it contains less grain, more fresh meat, less harmful additives, is more nutritious, etc. These are all claims that you have to believe because they are claims that are not backed by any regulation.
Do you trust dog food manufacturers? So you have to take the manufacturers' word for it that they use better quality ingredients in their super premium dog food than in their premium or nameless food. At the same time, we warn you that in the same industry under natural< /a> also includes an ingredient called meat meal. It is to be assumed that in your heads you consider a piece of fresh meat as natural, and not an ingredient like powder, created by extremely long cooking and dehydration of meat, where all the nutrients in the meat have been destroyed due to such long-term exposure to high temperatures. And when you expose foods such as potatoes and cereals, which have no place in dog food, and are represented in a high percentage in super premium dog food, to these procedures, acrylamides, toxic potentially mutagenic and carcinogenic molecules, are created. The only way you can get an insight into the quality of the product is to read the declaration, by reading the ingredients and analytical values of the food. At the same time, you need to know something about both. We will write about how to read declarations in one of our next blogs.