![]() ![]() So, in an effort to communicate the quality of their ingredients to consumers, manufacturers of products who use truly edible ingredients will often use some variation of “human grade,” such as “human quality” or “fit for humans.” The legal term for what an ordinary person would think of as “human food” is “edible” – but usually, only food-industry people are familiar with this term. When discussing their ingredients, many pet food companies use the phrase “human grade.” You have to understand that this is not a legal term, and its misuse probably causes more confusion – some of it intentional – than any other phrase used in the pet food industry. (Freshpet is the only product sold in supermarkets it’s also sold in pet supply stores.) What Is “Human Quality” Dog Food? All (save one, Freshpet) are available on a subscription basis for direct delivery to your door. If it is formulated with fresh ingredients, cooked, immediately chilled or frozen, and shipped in an appropriate cold-shipping container, kept in a refrigerator, and fed promptly after opening, the food shouldn’t need preservatives.ĥ. Most of them don’t contain preservatives. All of the products are cooked – at varying temperatures and with various methods, but they have all been heated to the point that any pathogenic bacteria that may have been present on any ingredient should have been rendered harmless.Ĥ. In other words, none of the meats used were previously cooked before mixing at the point of manufacture.ģ. All of them use “fresh” meats this includes meat that has been frozen to preserve freshness. To fully understand these claims, see “What’s Human Quality?” below.Ģ. All of them have a high meat content – and most of them claim to use meats and perhaps other ingredients that are graded for human consumption. Cooked Dog Food, Fed Freshīut let’s focus on the things that these products (mostly) do have in common:ġ. It just didn’t seem scalable, and apparently wasn’t (since they are no longer in business). Some of the products are essentially pureed others look more like a meatloaf before it’s cooked, complete with chunks of vegetables mixed in still others present more like those non-refrigerated preserved foods that are sold in plastic tubes, something that looks like a cross between a roll of salami and a tube of liverwurst.Īnother big reason for our hesitation: For some years after the first product of this type came on the market, it was the only product in the category, and we weren’t big fans of its ingredients.Īlso, other products came into the group and didn’t last we’re thinking here of several companies who sent us samples of foods they made and “canned” in the old-fashioned sense of the word – cooked in glass jars, like your grandmother “puts up” plum jam or stewed tomatoes. This is just one of the reasons we’ve never before reviewed dog foods in this category – for short, we’ll call it “fresh cooked foods.” When you start drilling down into how fresh dog foods are made, there is so much variety that the category really should be considered as a group with several sub-categories. As they do, it’s getting more and more difficult to slot the resulting products into categories for review. Today, more and more passionate, educated, dog-loving entrepreneurs are turning their attention to improving the health of their dogs and innovating new ways to feed quality dog foods. ![]()
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