Ultra Premium Dog Food Fact Check: The video below clearly shows that Ultra Premium dog food must contain at least 50% meat or fish of high nutritional value!

Whether you’re a breeder or a pet owner, whether your dog is active, senior, or pregnant, or whether your cat is overweight, sensitive, stressed, or nursing, their nutritional needs and your goals will all be different. With so many options to choose from, it can be hard to know which food is best for your pet. This article will explain everything you need to know so you can make the right choice every time.

There is one important point to note before we get to the heart of the matter. Keep in mind that dogs and cats are carnivores. Their basic needs are met by a substantial intake of protein and fat. Simply put, this means meat, fish, and animal fats.

Premium, Super Premium, Ultra Premium: Everything You Need to Know at a Glance!

Before buying pet food, you should familiarize yourself with the three types of standards you’ll encounter, which represent the only truly important classification system:

– ★ Premium Food

– ★★★ Super Premium Food

– ★★★★★Ultra Premium Food

Let’s take a closer look at what this means:

1) Premium Lines

• Protein > 18%: Meat meal + by-products (carcass) + vegetable protein

• Lipids ≥ 5%

• Carbohydrates > 50%: Rice, corn, wheat

2) Super Premium Lines

• Protein > 20%: Meat + by-products (carcass)

• Fat content ≥ 12%: Animal fat + vegetable oil

• Carbohydrates ≤ 60%: Rice, corn, etc.

3) Ultra Premium Lines

• Protein ≥ 30%: High-quality meat or fish (fresh meat)

• Fat > 15%: Animal fat or fish oil

• Glucides < 35% : S’il s’agit d’une alimentation sans céréales, les glucides proviendront par exemple de pommes de terre, de poix ou de quinoa.

In addition to all this, the Ultra Premium line includes natural antioxidants, is free of artificial colors, and contains plant extracts. The other tiers, however, may contain artificial antioxidants or even artificial colors (except for Super Premium).

Reminder: Proteins and fats are the most important components for your pet’s health. You should base your choice primarily on these elements. An entry-level food will consist of meat meal and plant-based proteins, while a high-end (Ultra Premium) food will consist exclusively of high-quality meat or fish products and animal fats.

Is "Ultra Premium" a given?

Let’s take a closer look at Ultra Premium, the pinnacle of pet food. The classification system, which we explored earlier, specifies that Ultra Premium must contain at least 50% high-quality meat or fish (fresh meat), 30% crude protein, and a fat content (animal fat or fish oil) exceeding 15%. These ingredients make up nearly half of the recipe. It should be noted that these are not pre-processed ingredients, such as meal, but high-quality ingredients whose nutrients have been preserved (particularly through steam cooking). Ultra Premium sets itself apart from other food categories. Poultry carcasses are prohibited, as are plant-based proteins, and the fat is exclusively of animal origin. The recipes are made from muscle meat or fish, and not from unsuitable ingredients such as ground bones, offal, tendons, etc.

or Premium meat and saltwater fish

The type of meat can vary. Red meat, white meat—it doesn’t matter. You can find poultry, such as chicken, but also duck, wild boar, or even venison. As for fish, it should be exclusively fatty saltwater fish, such as herring, mackerel, or salmon, to benefit from omega-3s, an excellent source of fatty acids that make up lipids.

or Regenerating lipids

In Ultra Premium food, there are no blends and, above all, no vegetable fats. Only animal fats. The fats generally come from chicken skin, which is very fatty, or from fish, as explained in the previous paragraph. They provide essential saturated fatty acids, which support optimal brain function, retinal health, nervous system function, and cardiovascular health.

Or why not some cereal?

Let’s be clear: grains are not part of the natural diet of dogs and cats. If your cat is wandering through a wheat field, it’s probably just hunting for mice. Grains are therefore not essential to their health. However, a source of carbohydrates—that is, sugar—remains necessary. But overcooked grains have a rapid and excessively high glycemic index, so they should be used with great caution. And that is precisely what sets Ultra Premium apart from other standards. Fruits or tubers such as potatoes, etc., are preferred.

or Always More

To label a product as "Ultra Premium" on its packaging, these minimum requirements must be met. However, some brands go even further. This is the case with Diusapet and its Alleva Holistic. With Holistic, the brand offers products that contain more than double the required percentage. For example, the multi-protein (dual-source meat)Chicken & Duck + Aloe Vera & Ginseng dogkibble offers between 65% and 75% meat depending on the recipe (mini, medium, maxi, puppy, and adult),while theLamb & Venison kibble offers between 60% and 65%. Andthe same goes for thesea fish recipe, ranging from 60 to 70%. And these are just three examples. The same applies to the recipes for cats. Nothing falls below 38% crude protein, with the vast majority of products averaging over 40% meat or fish.

Ultra Premium: yes, yes, and yes again!

As you can see, there are significant differences between Premium, Super Premium, and Ultra Premium. By choosing Ultra Premium—the genuine article, which meets the required standards with over 50% meat (muscle) and over 15% animal fat—you can be sure you’re providing yourdogorcatwith a diet perfectly tailored to its essential needs.

One last thing before we wrap up. More grains means more carbohydrates, and more carbohydrates means less protein—and less protein means less meat. And so… cost savings for manufacturers. And less healthy animals. So before diving in headfirst and giving in to the allure of “organic” or “fiber-enriched”—which are still well-intentioned—do your own fact-checking and make sure to look at the ingredients first. Too often, more grains mean lower nutritional quality, and thus an animal that will tend to eat more and gain weight. Yet it’s really that simple: Ultra Premium means over 50% meat and over 15% animal fat.