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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program Chef Michael's Sirloin Steak dog food is candy for dogs. They, mine included, seem to snarf it up like kids love junk food. The problem is that it IS junk food. It's filled with ingredients that should be avoided but are likely to be highly palatable to dogs and may also be appealing to their owners. Doesn't Grilled Sirloin Steak sound yummy?
Let's start with the easy part, price. I feed my dog dry Eukanuba. To compare, Chef Michel's costs 14 cents an ounce vs. 9.4 cents an ounce for Eukanuba. It is even more expensive considering that it contains 2% more moisture than Eukanuba.
Now, what's the problem with the ingredients in Chef Michael's? Here's the list of what's in it:
Beef, soybean meal, soy flour, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), brewers rice, soy protein concentrate, corn gluten meal, ground yellow corn, glycerin, poultry by-product meal, ground wheat, animal digest, pearled barley, calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, salt, grilled sirloin steak flavor, dried green beans, dried potatoes, sulfur, Vitamin E supplement, choline chloride, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, added color (Red 40, Blue 2, Yellow 5, Yellow 6), niacin, wheat flour, potassium chloride, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, manganese sulfate, Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, copper sulfate, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, garlic oil, Vitamin D-3 supplement, folic acid, calcium iodate, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), biotin, sodium selenite.
Here are the questionable ingredients, in order of volume in contents:
Soybean Meal and Soy Flour: the second and third largest ingredients in Chef Michael's. After removing most of the oil from soybeans by a solvent or mechanical extraction process, grinding the remaining flakes gives you "soybean meal." "Soy flour" is another byproduct of soybean processing. These are cheap sources of protein filler used to boost the protein content of dog foods. This type of protein does not provide the dog with as much usable protein as does fish, chicken, lamb, beef or other meats. All proteins are not equal in value to the dog.
Animal Fat: the fourth largest ingredient, according to the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO), animal fat in dog food is obtained from the tissues of mammals and/or poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. This means ANY animals, including the "4-D animals" (dead, diseased, disabled, or dying prior to slaughter), goats, pigs, horses, rats, roadkill, animals euthanized at shelters and restaurant and supermarket refuse. This is NOT a quality ingredient.
Brewers Rice: the fifth ingredient, is the small milled fragments of rice kernels left after milling whole rice. Although it has calories, it has little nutritional value.
Soy Protein Concentrate: what remains of soybeans after removing the water soluble carbohydrates from the beans. Similar to soybean meal and flour, this is an inexpensive way to boost protein, but contains a very low quality of protein.
Corn Gluten Meal: yet, another plant-based protein booster. Gluten is the residue remaining after corn has had most of its starchy carbohydrate washed out of it. It has little nutritional value, and is used mainly as a filler and binder.
Corn: an inexpensive filler with little nutritional value for the dog.
Poultry Byproduct Meal: a dry rendered product of slaughterhouse waste made from what's left of slaughtered poultry after all the prime cuts have been removed. This includes almost anything left after the actual meat has been removed: organs (the nourishing part), feet, beaks, undeveloped eggs -anything except quality skeletal muscle (real meat). Although, by-product meals are meat concentrates and contain nearly 300% more protein than fresh poultry, they are less digestible than chicken meat. Also, there is absolutely no control over the quality and consistency of poultry and other meat byproducts.
Wheat: See the comments for corn, above.
Animal Digest: a broth made of animal by-products that is usually sprayed onto the dry kibble to improve its taste. Although it cannot contain hair, horns, teeth, hooves and feathers, except in such trace amounts as might occur unavoidably in good factory practice, it is made of unspecified parts of unspecified animals. As with animal fat, there is no control over quality or contamination and may include "4-D animals" (dead, diseased, disabled, or dying prior to slaughter), goats, pigs, horses, rats, roadkill, animals euthanized at shelters and restaurant and supermarket refuse.
Artificial Colorings: solely to appeal to the dog owner. These ingredients are of no nutritional value and are controversial.
Menadione: a controversial form of vitamin K linked to liver toxicity, allergies and the abnormal break-down of red blood cells. It is unnecessary in dog food.
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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program If my dog was writing this review he would give Chef Michael's dog food five stars. He loved it and wolfed it down. The kids even used pieces of the food for training games and he eagerly participated.Unfortunately, the dog and I have a different idea of what smells good. Large amounts of soy give my dog (just a year old) horrendous gas. I actually didn't read the label before I fed it to him which was completely my fault. I assumed that a dog food marketed as gourmet would have better quality ingredients.
It clearly is very palatable to dogs. Owners will need to look carefully at the ingredients and decide if it works for them.
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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program Our dogs love this tasty dog food. However, our dogs have self-regulated their eating for years. We can leave food out, and they eat when they want and have remained fit and trim. However with this food, there is no self control. They finish a bowl at a time and compete to get to the bowl. So we are back to our previous dog food so we can get the weight back down and go back to the self-regulated eating. I knocked this food by a star for its artificial ingredients including food coloring (I guess the colors are more for the owner's enjoyment), and another star for the large, chewy chunks which are not good for their teeth. Clearly a mass-market product. Folks that like to buy leaner, natural foods for their pets should avoid this product.Read Best Reviews of Chef Michael's Grilled Sirloin Dry Dog Food 4.5 Pound Bag Here
Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program Go to Brenda Frank's excellent and compelling review and it is what I agree with completely. Very good job Brenda and cannot think of anything you have left out.I found this from the University of Pennsylvania on the issue of feeding soy to animals:
Soy has been linked to gas and deadly bloat in dogs. It is high in purines and is therefore a completely inappropriate protein source for urate-forming dogs. It is also high in silicates and promotes the formation of silica stones.
This is just a small sample of the harm soy can cause your dog.
When the world was touting the advantages of soy I jumped on that bandwagon and within time I became very sick. I will not do that to my dog.
Kidney stones? Have you ever had kidney stones? well I have and it is extremely painful and I do not wish for my dog to endure it.
I am a reviewer for Amazon and love doing this and I always try to give my best review being fair and objective. This time I was thrown a curve, this is the first 1 star rating I am giving to one of the products that Amazon has offered to me for review. My dog means the world to me and to even consider giving him something that is this harmful is not going to happen.
Sure beef is the first ingredient but the following ingredients are so against anything I will feed my dog.
My dog has been fed raw meat, ground and frozen to kill harmful pathogens, for the past few years. My vet does not like this practice but admits my dog is one of his healthiest patients.
I was wondering if I was not being fair to my dog and felt he may like to try some kibble for a change. But when this came and I read that it contained so much soy and soy byproducts I decided that my dog is getting a much better diet than this food can offer.
I am sorry I cannot recommend this product in all good conscience.
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I saw the commercial for this and thought I'd give it a try. My dogs are very picky eaters and often leave kibble behind in their bowl. I end up having to throw them out cuz they refuse to eat them again. I normally buy a bag of dog food with a variety of flavors and textures like Chewy pieces and meat filled nuggets, etc but often time they leave certain flavors/kibble behind. But when I purchased two bags of the Canine Creations ... OMG ! Not a Crumb nor Kibble was left behind. I believe it's made from freeze-dried beef and kibble pieces. Moose *One of my dogs* can be a pig sometimes when he comes across something delicious. He won't share with his sister. This is one of them. The daily recommended feeding is 1 cup so I put one cup but Moose would eat every last bit and not leave any for his sister. I tried maybe 2 cups so they'll be some left but then he'd just eat all 2 cups. I tried separating their bowls but she won't eat without her brother. So I just hand feed her and let him eat outta the bowl. I know spoiled but Chef Michael's Canine Creation is FOR SURE thee best Dog Food I have purchased. I'm gonna be continually purchasing these for my dogs from now on. If I could I'd actually rate this 10+ stars !!
