Wholemade Whole Grain Beef & Oat

Overall rating: 4.8457065 / 5 from 2236 reviews.

AI Generated Review Summary

Wholemade Whole Grain Beef & Oat offers a nutritious, convenient meal option for dogs, praised for its high-quality ingredients, delicious taste, and health benefits. Customers appreciate the low salt, raw food diet, which has improved their dogs' health and energy levels. The product is also loved for its organic and human-grade ingredients, making it a great choice for pet owners looking for a wholesome meal for their pets.

Summary topics

• Dehydrated Beef Food: 48%
• Low Salt Raw Food Diet: 3%
• Dog Food Approval: 16%
• Taste: 7%
• Honest Kitchen Satisfaction: 22%

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Review highlights

• "The Honest Kitchen's food smells delicious like real human food and is much easier to make." — Yu M.
• "My dogs absolutely love this food." — Carie
• "I like the ingredients, that my dog really enjoys it, and that it takes up less space in my pantry than my former food." — Tracy M.

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Q&A

I feed my dog 3/4 cup of dry food and I am currently giving him the honest kitchen beef stew and one tried these packets and liked them as well. I was trying to figure out how much to give him of the packet. He is 42 lbs

Hi Stephanie, Thank you for reaching out to The Honest Kitchen. The 1.5oz packets hold close to 1/3 cup. Just under 1/2 cup. Please let me know if you have any other concerns. All the best,

Hi there, I was wondering why sodium selenite was allowed to be listed in the food ingredients but us customers are not informed about the toxicity it has when ingested or breathed in by our pets? Why can't a non-synthetic mineral be in its place instead? Thank you, E.

Thanks so much for your note. We’ve chosen sodium selenite because both the sodium and selenium levels needed to be increased in our diets to meet AAFCO requirements. This compound provides the necessary elevation in both. Any mineral can actually be toxic if fed in excessive amounts. It’s important to note that we’re just using an exceedingly small trace amount of selenium in order to have our diets meet AAFCO’s requirements. The alternative you mention, selenium yeast, would not address the sodium requirement and is also a potential concern for some dogs who may have sensitivities to yeast products. Many pet owners prefer to avoid yeast products in their pets’ food. Additionally, selenium yeast is also not approved yet by AAFCO for use in cat foods. Even those companies who use selenium yeast (selenomethionine) in their dog foods still have to use sodium selenite as the selenium source for their cat food products. Selenium (as well as almost any mineral) can be a toxicity concern if over-dosed. The risk of overdose is not any different between sodium selenite and selenium yeast. As with every single component in our vitamin-mineral premix, our sodium selenite is 100% human food grade and not sourced from China. We purchase our premix from a supplier to human food and supplement companies, and it’s formulated with extreme precision, according to human food standards. Our manufacturing facility is also a human food producer and has incredibly strict quality control measures in place, producing our food in small, precise, and carefully measured batches. Our foods are formulated with a selenium level well below the maximum allowable safe amount. We have a track record of safely producing our foods for more than seventeen years. With all that being said, we do appreciate your feedback and will absolutely keep it on file. We want to assure you that we are incredibly thoughtful about every decision we make regarding the safety and integrity of our products. We’re as obsessed with pets as our customers, and we only ever make products that are good enough for our own pets to eat. We also taste everything ourselves. The information and safety data about selenium is confusing; there’s some misinformation online, but there are also a number of studies that talk about the safety and health-enhancing effects of sodium selenite in both animals and human beings, which have been linked below. We will continue to keep abreast of scientific research and clinical trials on the subject, and of course, as with every aspect of our products, we will pivot if we feel it’s necessary to, in the future. http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/67301-alternative-cancer-treatment-when-chemotherapy-fails-sodium-selenite-may-cure/ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/j.efsa.2016.4398/pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4488827/ http://www.fsc.go.jp/english/evaluationreports/foodadditive/sodium_selenite_executive_summar_17_November_2015.pdf We hope that sets your mind at rest!

I see you listed how much to feed the pups but it is unreadable seems like a copy paste of a table format that did not work. Can you please just tell me how much to feed a 80lb dog? I dont know why that data table that was copied and pasted from is not easily found right there on the product page Thanks

Hi Mike, I have attached the photo below for your reference. 

Was this beef with grain food once called Verve?

Hi Diane, Yes that is correct! hope this helps!

Hi. I’m looking for a feeding guide. My dog cannot have chicken, and we would like to include grains. She currently eats a lamb and rice recipe and she is losing weight (3 year old Great Pyrenees). I’m trying to find out how much food per day she should get if she is 90lbs?

Hi Rachel, I have attached our feeding guide for Dehydrated recipe below.  Hope this helps!