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Thrive is Honest Kitchen's all life stages diet that contains chicken and the gluten-free, organic grain Quinoa. Quinoa is easily tolerated by even the most grain-sensitive pups and contains every single amino acid.
What Makes Honest Kitchen Pet Food Different?
Minimal Processing
By using a gentle dehydration process, HK is able to maintain the integrity of their core ingredients. The fruits and vegetables are harvested at the peak of their ripeness then gently dried. Dehydration ensures that the enzymes, vitamins and nutrients are still intact, so the fruits and vegetables are actually considered raw. HK's meat and egg ingredients are dehydrated at a high enough temperature to kill any pathogenic bacteria that may be present. Dehydrated foods are highly nutritious, easy to prepare and store, and light-weight to ship. It also means that you don’t have to worry about feeding your pet any harsh preservatives. Essentially, the only preservative is the lack of air – how cool?
Human-Grade Ingredients and Production- from farm to bowl
When it comes to sourcing ingredients and preparing their food, HK fell back on the simple phrase that mothers and grandmothers are mouthing around the world right now, “You are what you eat.” The same holds true for pets. Human-grade, for HK, is not just a marketing term. They believe that your pets deserve the same nourishing diets that you would feed your family. All their products are safe for human consumption, a requirement for entry into the human food facility where our products are made. Each of their diets are carefully blended to encompass a broad array of amino acids, phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals and enzymes to help achieve and maintain optimum health. Production occurs in a FDA inspected human food facility in California, alongside products such as breakfast cereals and beverage mixes for human consumption.
Whole Foods from Suppliers Who Care
All chickens are not created equal; while some have never seen the light of day, HK's are free range. They choose suppliers who care. Here's just a snap-shot of some of their carefully chosen ingredients. Sign up for HK's e-newsletter to learn more about their ingredients and how they choose them.
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Chicken - 100% Free-Range, Sustainably Farmed and Humanely Raised.
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Ground flaxseed - certified organic from Washington, USA
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Cranberries - natural, unsweetened and free of sulfites from Massachusetts, USA
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Sea Kelp - certified organic kelp grown in Breidafjord, northwest Iceland
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Quinoa - certified organic, fair-trade from Bolivia, South America – it’s sourced from more than 1000 small, indigenous family farms to provide the families with a valuable, fair-trade income.
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Apples - natural, unsweetened and free of sulfates from Washington
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Grains – certified organic, whole rolled from Montana, USA
How to Feed
Package Size Equals Dry Measured Cups Yield When Hydrated with water
4 oz. Holds about 1 cup Makes about 1 lb fresh food
4 lbs Holds about 16 to 17 Makes about 16 to 17 lbs of fresh food
10 lbs Holds about 40 to 43 Makes about 40 to 43 lbs of fresh food
Feeding Guidelines for Honest Kitchen Complete Dog Foods
Hydrate the food with fresh, warm water. After hydration, which takes just 5 to 10 minutes, the food should be consumed right away. Any leftover food should be treated like fresh food, and refrigerated up to 48 hours or discarded.
The following daily amounts (DRY quantity) should be adjusted to suit your individual dog’s requirements, which vary according to age, breed and level of daily activity.
Dog’s Weight Amount Per Day (Dry)
Less Active More Active
Up to 10 lbs 1/2 Cup 1 Cup
Up to 30 lbs 1 Cup 2 Cups
Up to 50 lbs 2 Cups 4 Cups
Up to 70 lbs 2 1/4 Cups 4 1/2 Cups
Up to 90 lbs 2 3/4 Cups 5 1/2 Cups
A full standard US Measuring Cup of dehydrated food (which is 8 oz by volume or 4 oz by weight) will hydrate to make about 1lb of fresh food. Half to one cup of extra meat or other ingredients may be mixed in with each cup of food, once hydrated.
Health
Honest Kitchen complete foods (all except Preference base-mix) can be fed as stand-alone diets. Preference requires the addition of protein to create a balanced meal. Additional foods can be added to the suggested serving sizes for all Honest Kitchen's other diets, if desired – however this is not compulsory! If you do wish to add your own home prepared ingredients, we suggest adding about half a cup of ‘extras’ for each dry-measured cup of food. Depending on how active your pet is, you can feed slightly less Honest Kitchen food to compensate, or simply add the extras to the normal serving for his or her weight.
Vitamins and minerals
Each Honest Kitchen formula contains the following, 100% human food grade, vitamin-mineral premix: tricalcium phosphate, choline chloride, zinc amino acid chelate, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin E supplement, potassium chloride, iron amino acid chelate, copper amino acid chelate.
Storage
Dehydrated foods should be stored in a cool, dry place. Honest Kitchen products have a shelf life of twelve months or more, depending upon ambient temperature and humidity. The date of manufacture is printed on all packages.The containers should be closed tightly between meals. We recommend thoroughly cleaning and drying any container that you use to store the food, prior to refilling.
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Thrive is Honest Kitchen's all life stages diet that contains chicken and the gluten-free, organic grain Quinoa. A Bolivian grain, Quinoa is easily tolerated by even the most grain-sensitive pups and contains every single amino acid. Thrive contains a minimal array of ingredients to accommodate the needs of pups that can't tolerate flax, potatoes, or high glycemic index fruits. Alongside its Vitamins & Minerals, Thrive consists only of: Chicken, Organic Quinoa, Sweet Potatoes, Spinach, Parsley, Kelp, Rosemary. Good for all ages of dogs, Thrive is flax-free and lower in carbohydrates.
Ingredients: Dehydrated USDA Chicken, Quinoa, Sweet Potatoes, Spinach, Parsley, Kelp, Rosemary, Vitamins and Minerals Never heard of Quinoa? Pronounced keen-wah, it's a treasured ancient grain from Bolivia in South America. This Quinoa is fair-trade, sustainably grown and 100% certified organic. Naturally gluten-free, Quinoa is a valuable source of complete protein. It contains every single amino acid and is especially well-endowed with the amino acid lysine, which is essential for tissue growth and repair. In addition to protein, quinoa features a host of other health-building nutrients.
Nutritional Analysis: (Dry Matter Basis) Protein 26.0% min, Fat 18.0% min, Fiber 6.5% max, Moisture 7.5% max, Calcium 1.2% min 1.4% max, Phosphorus 0.9% min 1.0% max, Magnesium 0.3% min 0.39% max, Sodium 1.7% min 1.8% max Folic Acid 1.6 mg/kg
How Honest Kitchen Foods are Made
The Honest Kitchen’s foods are made using a technique called dehydration. This is a slow, gentle method of very minimally processing the food, which removes the moisture from our raw ingredients. Dehydration takes several hours, and uses warm air to ‘blow away’ the moisture (mostly at temperatures below 104 degrees, except for our meats and eggs, which are dehydrated at over 120 degrees in order to kill any pathogens that may be present, and make the food completely safe even for an immune compromised pet).
Dehydration is much gentler than canning or extrusion, which generally involve very high heat and pressure, and are used to manufacture most types of pet food including most kibbled diets. Canning and extrusion involve such high temperatures, that many of the natural nutrients in the raw ingredients are actually destroyed, meaning the manufacturer must replace them with dozens of artificial vitamins and minerals, in order to make the finished product meet the AAFCO nutrient profiles. Take a look at the list if ingredients on regular pet food and compare the contents of the vitamin-mineral premix (usually composed of the ingredients that are rather difficult to read or pronounce!) and compare them with a raw or dehydrated food. You’ll notice that minimally processed diets contain very few added vitamins and minerals, because so much of the natural nutrition in the raw ingredients has survived the gentler, more minimal production process.
Honest Kitchen is legally allowed to use the term ‘Human Grade’ on their labels. Unlike most conventional pet foods, which are produced in a pet food rendering plant, Honest Kitchen's production takes place right alongside, and on the same equipment as, products like breakfast cereals, bakery mixes and milkshake powders – within a human food production plant. Of course, the equipment is cleaned after every single production run, regardless of what was last made! Our production is 100% US based and under FDA inspection, so the entire process actually takes place under the same standards in place for human food products. Nothing at all is different between what the plant makes for you to eat, and what it produces for our pets.
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