I don’t know about you but I sometimes fall for a company just because of their logo or packaging. I’m very sensitive to design because I feel like if a company puts that much consideration into their design often times the product quality follows suit. This is true in the case of The Honest Kitchen.
Unfortunately, Lulu and Beans are on a prescription diet so they couldn’t test out this food, but I have heard from a number of other pet owners how great their food is, especially for pets with allergies. The Honest Kitchen pet foods are dehydrated, which gently removes moisture from whole foods, keeping the raw foods intact and removes the need for preservatives.
Aside from fruits and vegetables, The Honest Kitchen ingredients include hormone & antibiotic free meats (like free-range chicken), wild-caught fish (like like-caught haddock), organic grains, non-GMO produce, and source organic and free-trade wherever possible.
The Honest Kitchen is also the only human-grade pet food company in the US. Human-grade means that the food ingredients are sourced from the human food chain, and made in an FDA approved and inspected facility. They believe pets should eat the quality foods that we eat (assuming you eat healthfully!). Their ingredients are tested by both humans and dog members of the company.
Beyond being food conscious, the company is eco-conscious, too — using recyclable bags, recyclable/biodegradable boxes printed with soy-based inks.
The Honest Kitchen owner Lucy and Charlie Postins, with dogs
Samples and starter boxes are available at www.thehonestkitchen.com, which is a great way to see if your dog will like The Honest Kitchen before ordering full-size boxes.
CapreeK on 01.31.2011 at 20:34 PM
We’ve been feeding Wrigley this food for a few months now and IT IS AMAZING. It’s the first food we’ve found that doesn’t cause any problems for our little sensitive pup. I really can’t recommend it enough. Thanks for posting about them, Jaime!
Alyssa on 07.12.2012 at 15:17 PM
My pup has been eating this for several months. He liked his Orijen all right, but when dinner time comes around now, he almost jumps on me for it, and he’s a picky guy.
I REALLY love the Honest Kitchen’s philosophy and the quality of their ingredients. They have a lot of variety for all types of dogs, and I love that the food lasts forever (it takes my 6lb mutt MONTHS to eat a 5lb bag of kibble) and is still raw.
I have to say, the turkey one tasted a little like mac and cheese. 😛
PetFoodRatings on 04.04.2013 at 09:14 AM
This is a wonderful food. You rarely see a dog food with so much fruit and veggies! It even has bananas and coconut, giving your dog a rather swanky diet. My review is here if anyone’s interested – http://www.petfoodratings.org/dry-dog-food/honest-kitchen-zeal-recipe/