Iams Adult Minichunks Dry Dog Food
Top 5 ingredients of Iams Adult Minichunks Dry Dog Food are Chicken, Whole Grain Ground Corn, Ground Whole Grain Sorghum, Chicken By-Product Meal, and Dried Beet Pulp.
Iams Adult Minichunks Dry Dog Food Ingredients
Chicken is an excellent source of healthy protein for dogs. It is filled with essential amino acids to build strong muscles and help to maintain organs and tissue.
In addition to being a flavor that dogs love, chicken also delivers Omega 6 fatty acids that help sustain healthy skin and shiny coats along with B3 and B6 vitamins, phosphorous and selenium as well.
This provides easily digestible carbohydrates.
Ground Whole Grain Sorghum is another carbohydrate similar to corn. It provides an excellent source of quick energy. The grain is finely ground and cooked before being incorporated into the Eukanuba brand formulas.
Chicken By-Product Meal is rendered mix of less desirable parts (eg. gizzards, giblets, feet), internal organs (eg. lungs, spleen, liver, heart, kidneys) and bones of a chicken.
Chicken by-products are protein rich like chicken and also it's a natural source of Chondroitin Sulfate and Glucosamine. However, it's an already processed material in dog food manufacturing and makes the food ultra-processed.
Is the fifth ingredient. This is an ingredient that is rich in fiber.
Starch Meter
According to the guaranteed analysis, Iams Adult Minichunks Dry Dog Food has 25% protein, 14% fat, 4% fiber, and 10% moisture. If we assume 5% ash, then the starch amount in this dog food is 42%.
We calculated the starch ratio in Iams Adult Minichunks Dry Dog Food as 42%. 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 Iams kibble has more starch ratio than the average.
