how to tell if a food is high quality

[gutted]

what should i look for when im looking at the ingredient list? no soybean or flour as the top 3 ingredients? how much protein or fat is considered "high quality"?

i know a lot of people use NLS and i probably will go that route but thats not what this topic is about. id like to learn how and what makes a "high quality" food.

 

[isde02]

What I look for is foods that have alot of "aquatic" ingredients and less synthetic man made ingredients. Nls for example uses fish meal, krill meal, herring and squid meal as the first few ingredients. Then they use alot of different fruits and vegtables including algae meal and spirulina, so that you get a broad spectrum of nutrition. Fish food, no matter if its for predators or herbivores, need to have vitamins and minerals. Some people think that just because a fish food says fish meal that its a high quality food. Well they don't realize that there are high quality and low quality fish meals, and you need more than just that in a food.

 

[gutted]

what about NLS cichlid formula or thera, both have krill meal, fish meal and wheat flour listed as their top 3 ingredients.

what do you think about this food? the link for it is in my other thread http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...hink-of-this-premium-krill-pellet-(3-Viewing)

 

[isde02]

what about NLS cichlid formula or thera, both have krill meal, fish meal and wheat flour listed as their top 3 ingredients.

what do you think about this food? the link for it is in my other thread http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...hink-of-this-premium-krill-pellet-(3-Viewing)

All pellets keep in mind start off as dough and depending on whats in it use different fillers to hold the dough together before going through the extruder to be cut into pellets. As for the krill pellet your asking about I personally wouldn't use it as a staple. It has vitamins but wheres the spirulina, algae, vegetables. That krill pellet just seems like a basic growth pellet. I personally feed three different pellents in one feeding just in case one pellet offers something that another doesn't. Nls has all the natural ingredients to target growth, and to help your fish display their best colors. Hikari, imo focus on growth and digestion, so I just use both.

 

[Kujiraya]

Test Method - How to tell if fish pellet quality any good:

i) Grind pellets up into powder.
ii) Add little bit fish stock, little bit lemon juice, unsalted butter, sprinkle of sea salt, white pepper and sugar, and finally few drops lemon zest oil. Bring together roughly, without working it too much, and form into ball of shortcrust pastry. Wrap well and place in refrigerator to rest.
iii) Roll fish pellet pastry out into sheet. Spread layer of finely chopped fresh lemon verbena over the pastry, place a fillet of pellet-fed Oscar on top of one half of the pastry, then cover the fish fillet with a layer of crayfish mousse. Fold the fish pellet pastry over to enclose the fish package.
iv) Bake in oven, or pan-fry in skillet until golden brown. Serve immediately with wasabi-lemon oil mayonnaise.

Interpretation of test results: If taste good, yummy tummy, can bring to MFK dinner party, then fish pellet is top quality. If smell off-fishy yukky-pus-stale-urine, taste rotty-putrid-foul, make intestines spasm-runny-brown-spilly, mouth spewing vomit all over everywhere, must-call-911-need-ER-stomach-pumping-vacuum, then probably fish pellet quality not good.

 

[isde02]

Test Method - How to tell if fish pellet quality any good:

i) Grind pellets up into powder.
ii) Add little bit fish stock, little bit lemon juice, unsalted butter, sprinkle of sea salt, white pepper and sugar, and finally few drops lemon zest oil. Bring together roughly, without working it too much, and form into ball of shortcrust pastry. Wrap well and place in refrigerator to rest.
iii) Roll fish pellet pastry out into sheet. Spread layer of finely chopped fresh lemon verbena over the pastry, place a fillet of pellet-fed Oscar on top of one half of the pastry, then cover the fish fillet with a layer of crayfish mousse. Fold the fish pellet pastry over to enclose the fish package.
iv) Bake in oven, or pan-fry in skillet until golden brown. Serve immediately with wasabi-lemon oil mayonnaise.

Interpretation of test results: If taste good, yummy tummy, can bring to MFK dinner party, then fish pellet is top quality. If smell off-fishy yukky-pus-stale-urine, taste rotty-putrid-foul, make intestines spasm-runny-brown-spilly, mouth spewing vomit all over everywhere, must-call-911-need-ER-stomach-pumping-vacuum, then probably fish pellet quality not good.

Lol!

 

[NitroDempsey]

Test Method - How to tell if fish pellet quality any good:

i) Grind pellets up into powder.
ii) Add little bit fish stock, little bit lemon juice, unsalted butter, sprinkle of sea salt, white pepper and sugar, and finally few drops lemon zest oil. Bring together roughly, without working it too much, and form into ball of shortcrust pastry. Wrap well and place in refrigerator to rest.
iii) Roll fish pellet pastry out into sheet. Spread layer of finely chopped fresh lemon verbena over the pastry, place a fillet of pellet-fed Oscar on top of one half of the pastry, then cover the fish fillet with a layer of crayfish mousse. Fold the fish pellet pastry over to enclose the fish package.
iv) Bake in oven, or pan-fry in skillet until golden brown. Serve immediately with wasabi-lemon oil mayonnaise.

Interpretation of test results: If taste good, yummy tummy, can bring to MFK dinner party, then fish pellet is top quality. If smell off-fishy yukky-pus-stale-urine, taste rotty-putrid-foul, make intestines spasm-runny-brown-spilly, mouth spewing vomit all over everywhere, must-call-911-need-ER-stomach-pumping-vacuum, then probably fish pellet quality not good.

Lmao that you actually took the time to type they out, good laugh


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