Fresh Pet Food Co Pet Mince
| Website | Fresh Pet Food Co |
| Available from | Coles, Woolworths, IGA |
Supermarket pet mince has a bad rap. It’s often poor quality ambiguous meat preserved with sulphites. This offering in Coles, Woolworths, and IGA is no exception.
Let’s take a look…
The first ingredient is selected lean kangaroo and other meats. There’s no clarification on what percentage of this ingredient is other meats rather than kangaroo, and neither is there clarification on what those other meats are or whether they’re desirable. I’ll leave you to wonder what other animals might be in this mince.
The use of E number chemical preservative E223 is concerning, especially for those who feed this product in excess or regularly. It’s a sulphite which will likely reduce the vitamin content in the food, and if that’s not bad enough it can be difficult to metabolise if your pet has impaired kidney function. It’s also recommended to avoid E223 in the case of an intolerance to sulphites.
None of the above has been mentioned on the packaging, only that it’s included to “preserve freshness”. What that really means is it’s added to stop the meat going rancid before you feed it.
On a final note, before we conclude this isn’t a very good product, we don’t even know what they mean by “added fibre”. If they’re not willing to disclose what the fibre is, then you probably don’t want to know.
So there you go, we conclude this isn’t a very good product.
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Ingredients
Selected lean kangaroo and other meats, including offal, added fibre, enriched with vitamins and minerals, preservative E223.
I became concerned when my dog developed terrible skin allergies and scratching, having used this meat for awhile as part of a raw diet,
I emailed the company asking if they could tell me just what were the OTHER MEATS included in the ingredient list.
They were very nice, got back to me straight away…
It does also contain some wild venison that we also produce a few days a week as well as some chicken which can be an issue for some dogs with allergies.
So that explains alot as the consistency is often different. Not good for my dog who is sensitive to chicken
Our Border Collies used to really like this mince but we tried other things and have only recently come back to it and neither will touch it so something has changed. Maybe they’re adding more preservative. Difficult cause we live out of town and my partner bought 8 bags. I wonder if cooking would help?
Hi Karen, cooking it may help rather than wasting it, but dogs are very instinctive so I would wonder what the reason is they won’t eat it raw…
Maybe resealable if you have two hands and sharp knife to cut membrane. Don’t slip or you lose the possible reseal. Almost need to trim both sides of membrane to ensure it come out NEATLY.
But Balue for Money even if I had to use my own container
The lack of listed ingredients is worrying, pet food or not, I won’t buy something that doesn’t tell me what is in it.
My cat is not a fan of it in comparison to Aldi’s version.
Why care so much about what meats are in it? I WANT them to use whatever byproducts are available from the human supply chain to minimise food waste i.e. mutton, old dairy cow and spent hens. Why does it matter if that changes weekly or seasonally? A varied diet is healthier for humans so don’t expect any less for pets. Do you think you would be better off eating exactly the same meal every day of the year?