What are Pet Food Fillers?

This Best Food 4 My Pet Nutrition FAQ discusses unhealthy fillers in commercial pet food brands that have little or no nutritional value. Products like feathers, soy, cottonseed hulls, corncobs, peanut hulls, straw, and cereal by-products are often included as inexpensive fillers or low-grade fiber content.

Many commercial pet foods contain fillers that have little or no nutritional value. Products like feathers, soy, cottonseed hulls, corncobs, peanut hulls, citrus pulp, screening, weeds, straw, and cereal by-products are often included as inexpensive fillers or low-grade fiber content.

Proper fiber acts as a calming base for forming the stool in the colon, and it should help develop good fecal consistency rather than potentially aggravate the intestinal walls as low-grade fiber fillers tend to do.

Flint River pet foods use beet pulp as their fiber source, the best available source for gently massaging intestinal walls, removing mucous and slime, and aiding in your pet's bowel movements. Only the beet pulp fiber left after all the sugar has been extracted is used in the Flint River pet food formulas.

Flint River Ranch premium dog foods are also guaranteed free of corn and soybean sources, which are much more difficult for dogs to digest than wheat grains. Flint River foods use a combination of high-quality ground wheat, wheat flour, wheat germ meal, and ground rice for their grain sources.

The grains are purchased directly from the highest-quality mills; even though it costs more, it guarantees the finest quality grain without the risk of mold or other harmful toxins.

Since some pets are allergic to wheat-based food, Flint River Ranch also offers several non-wheat-based formulas, including a Lamb, Millet, and Rice formula and a Trout and Sweet Potato ("Fish and Chips") formula.