Anybody else see how bad this food is?

Question

Oat Groats, Millet, Alfalfa Meal, Milo, Safflower Seed, Sunflower Seeds, Corn, Kibbled Corn, Pineapple, Buckwheat, Wheat, Peanuts, Banana, Raisins, Lentils, Squash, Pumpkin Seed, Almonds, Brazil Nuts, Green Peas, Cantaloupe Seed, Navy Beans, Carrot, Potatoes, Apples, Papaya, Wheat Flour, Cheese Meal, Semolina Flour, Soybean Meal, Gluten Meal, Soy Oil, Di-Calcium Phosphate, Dried Brewers Yeast Fermentation Product, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Salt, Vitamin A Palmitate, Cholecalciferol (Source of Vitamin D3), Alpha Tocopherol (Source of Vitamin E), Ascorbic Acid (Source of Vitamin C), Thiamine Mononitrate, Menadione Sodium Bisulfate (Source of Vitamin K), Choline Chloride, Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin, Niacin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Copper Proteinate, Calcium Iodate, Cobalt Chloride, Manganese Proteinate, Iron Methionine, Zinc Proteinate, Dried Bacillus Subtilis Fermentation Product, Dried Aspergillus Oryzae Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Product, Dried Lactobacillus Bulgaricus Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Lactis Fermentation Product, Sulphur Dioxide (a preservative), FD&C Color and Artificial Flavors.

Those are the ingredients in Brown's Tropical Carnival Mouse and Rat food sold at PetCo. I can't believe people pay for and feed this to their rats. Soybean anything should be in front of half the stuff on this list. >.< Comments?

Answer 1

It&#039;s so strange that you mentioned this food! I was actually just reading the ingredients on this yesterday, in Petsmart, who also sells it. I wanted to see if we had any food there that was any good. Mazuri was all they had.

&amp; Kaytee is not a very good food.  

Answer 2

eww?

Answer 3

Stop buyinh it for your rats!! Get Kaytee Dental BItes food. It&#039;s much healthier and it helps to keep your rats teeth trim as well! My gerbil loves it!

Answer 4

why dont you just give him lettuce and carrots

Answer 5

Yuck. The only pet store food I&#039;d ever recommend would be Oxbow&#039;s Regal Rat. Mazuri is the best commercial lab block you&#039;ll find but I&#039;m still not satisfied with it.

Menadione Sodium Bisulfate isn&#039;t just toxic to rats. It&#039;s a synthetic form of vitamin k shown to possibly cause health problems in animals in general. Unfortunately, there isn&#039;t ANY commercial rat diets right now without this included since rats require a pretty high level of vitamin k.

I can&#039;t believe someone recommended Kaytee in the answers. That&#039;s even worse than Brown&#039;s (they put ethoxyquin in their foods, a dangerous preservative).

Answer 6

I feed this to my rats sometimes.

Answer 7

the Menadione Sodium Bisulfate is toxic for rats, so I&#039;ve come to know..as well as that food being overloaded with sugar. eep. stay far far away from that one!