Nowadays, there are many kinds of dog food on the market, various and diverse. It can be overwhelming, and it's hard to know how to choose. But in the end, it's about a few key factors: ingredients, flavor, brand, and price. Today, the editor from Boqi Network will talk about what should be paid attention to when choosing dog food. Let's take a look together.

◎ Dry food: Generally speaking, the nutritional components of various brands of dry food are quite similar, but due to different food formulas, they are aimed at dogs of different ages and breeds. For example, puppies eat easily digestible special puppy food, adult dogs eat energy-type adult dog food, etc. Dry food has relatively stable and balanced nutritional components, and dogs can also clean their teeth while eating.

◎ Canned food: The nutritional components vary greatly depending on the price. High-priced ones use relatively better meat materials; low-priced ones mostly use unminced animal offal. The advantage of canned food is that vitamins are not easy to be lost, and the taste is delicious. The downside is that there is a lot of meat, which causes the dog's feces to smell stronger and long-term consumption can easily lead to tartar. Although dry food is not as tasty as canned food, it is easier to digest and absorb, and the feces do not smell much.

◎ Snacks: Snacks can be used in dog training life as rewards for dogs. Owners must never eat snacks themselves and let dogs try them, such as chewing gum, ice cream, cakes, etc., otherwise it is easy to cause dogs to get cavities or gain weight and form bad habits of having no appetite for regular meals.

Having grasped the types of dog food, next you need to learn how to choose. This is a tricky problem. Faced with more and more brands and flavors, it really makes people dazzled and unsure which dog food is the best choice for the dog at home. At this time, you might take a look at the dense small print on the back of the dog food. Usually, this small print is the benchmark of the quality of the dog food. Through these small prints, you can judge how much a particular ingredient weighs in the dog food.

In professional dog food, the ingredient list is arranged in descending order by weight. If chicken is listed first in the ingredient label list, it means that chicken is the main ingredient in the dog food; other ingredients are relatively lower. When buying dog food, if the front label says "chicken flavor", but in the ingredient ratio on the back, chicken is not in the first place, then this dog food is misleading. If the first listed "meat" does not specify what kind of meat, it is mostly referring to poor quality meat. If the dog food falls into either of these two situations, it is best not to buy it to avoid negatively affecting your dog's health.