FOOD RATING SOURCE CHARACTERISTICS
God's Plan: 10
Wild Food		 Wild Food Hunting and Foraging
all organic fresh foods		 Study Wild Animals to Learn Best Diet for that species

The Best You Can Do: 8-9
Balanced, natural, & preferably organic diet made by you.Or  commercially available Fresh frozen food

Cooked is 8
Raw is 9

Raw is the best but always handle carefully. Our pets can ingest more bacteria than our children so keep raw meats away from kids.

Dogs:
1/2 Cup Meat (beef, turkey, lamb, fish, chicken, eggs) 1⁄4+ veggies , kale, spinach leafy veg broccoli, carrots)
1/4 oats barley, brown rice, sweet potato

Cats:
1/2 Cup Meat (Same)
1/2 Cup Veggies and small amt of grains

Some brands:
Steves's Real food, Bravo, Farmore,Wysong,
BARF Billinghurst, Prarie, OMR pride

Ecological, Inexpensive, Easy, Freezable, Healthy, Yummy

You need to add vitamins and minerals and fatty acids if you make your own. If you use a prepared brand they are  balanced.
Not A Bad Compromise: 7-6     "Super Premium Brands"

Abady, Wellness, Pet Guard, California Natural, Cornucopia, Innova, Precise, Natural Life, Solid Gold, Nature's Recipe, Wysong, PhD

 Few/No Preservatives or By-Products, hormone free, all-natural, meat as the first 2-3 ingredients, cold-extrusion pelleting, vitamins and minerals

Getting The Idea: 5 - 4
"Upscale Brands"

 Iam's, Science Diet, ANF, Eukanuba, Bil-Jac Digestible, easily available, less costly, ingredients are poorer quality

Just Mucking Along: 3
"Grocery Store" Brands

Alpo, Purina, Friskies, Kal Kan, 9-Lives, Gaine's, Fancy Feast, Figaro, Ken-L-Ration

 Not very digestible, additives, dyes, preservatives, carcinogens, addictive enhancers, no dates on bags
You Get What You Pay For: 2   "Generic Brands"  Fromm's, Holiday, Houle's, Super-America, Red Barn, President's Choice Ultra-Cheap Ingredients, Irregular Batch-Cooking, Products Untested, Irreputable Companies

Let Them Eat Cake: 1
Soft/Moist, treat foods

Whiska's, Kit n Kaboodle, Crave, Kibbles and Bits, Fit & Trim, Chef's Blend, Mighty Dog, Pounce, Snausages, Tender Vittles, Beggin Strips, etc.... No redeemable nutritional value, full of preservatives and deadly chemicals, rots teeth, causes intestinal distress, expensive!

We Warned You ...0
Poorly balanced
Randomly offered
Unhealthy Food

Excess fat and meat, candy, Ice Cream, white flour products, anything microwaved, unhealthy table scraps( butter,oil, grease-laden food)

Cause of obesity, behavior problems, health issues, diabetes, allergies, and picky eaters