Earthborn Holistic Venture Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Smoked Turkey & Butternut Squash Dry Dog Food
Top 5 ingredients of Earthborn Holistic Venture Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Smoked Turkey & Butternut Squash Dry Dog Food are Turkey, Turkey Meal, Butternut Squash, Tapioca, and Pumpkin.
Earthborn Holistic Venture Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Smoked Turkey & Butternut Squash Dry Dog Food Ingredients
Fresh turkey.
Turkey Meal is a dry, rendered product from whole turkeys that has been through some processing to remove water and fat. It's a highly concentrated protein/mineral resource.
Turkey meal is basically turkey with a longer storage time and no moisture. It's a protein rich food and also magnesium and zinc resource for the health of your dog’s skin and coat. However, it's an already processed material in dog food manufacturing and makes the food ultra-processed.
Tapioca is used as a non-nutritive binder in dog foods.
Starch Meter
According to the guaranteed analysis, Earthborn Holistic Venture Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Smoked Turkey & Butternut Squash Dry Dog Food has 25% protein, 13% fat, 6.5% fiber, and 10% moisture. If we assume 5% ash, then the starch amount in this dog food is 40.5%.
We calculated the starch ratio in Earthborn Holistic Venture Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Smoked Turkey & Butternut Squash Dry Dog Food as 40.5%. Basically, around two fifth (almost half) of the food you feed to {your dog} is starch.
Average starch ratio of dry dog foods on inthekibble.com is 38.67% - and that means this Earthborn Holistic kibble has more starch ratio than the average.