Sportmix Dog Food

Looking at the Sportmix Dog Food Company:

Sportmix is made by Midwestern Pet Foods, Inc., which itself is a subsidiary of Nunn Milling Company Inc. Midwestern Pet Foods was founded in 1926, and the head office is in Evansville, Indiana. Both companies continue to be family owned. As well as Sportmix, Midwestern Pet Foods also makes Earthborn Holistic pet food, ProPac, and ProPac Ultimates. They have three factories the Midwestern United States.

With Sportmix, you can’t always be sure what you’re paying for.

As of 2016, Midwestern Pet Foods manufactures 117 different products. Of those, Sportmix dry food is by far the most popular. It’s an economic line that allows independent retailers to compete with kind of mass-produced pet products carried

I think the company is more concerned with profit than real pet nutrition.

Pros:

The ingredients are quite natural, and the products contain a recommended levels of protein, but the numbers can be misleading. Protein doesn’t always come from meat. It’s in plants and legumes too, but dogs are carnivores, so meat should always be the first and main ingredient. The quality of the meat is important too, and what I was able to find out from reading the dog food label wasn’t reassuring. I don’t like unnamed meat sources or meat by-products.

The pet food runs from reasonably priced to quite inexpensive, but I suspect that’s because of a lack of quality.

Cons:

I was unable to find where the ingredients are from, where everything is made, or what production methods they use. That means I have no idea what the farming, food and manufacturing practices of those countries have.

If you look at the ingredients of SPORTMiX® Wholesomes line the first ingredient is a named meat meal, but the next three are, Brown Rice, Rice Flour, and Rice Bran. That looks suspiciously like they're trying to minimize just how much rice there is by splitting it