First Ingredient Myths

First ingredient myth. Pet food is formulated by the ton.

1st Ingredient – Meat – 320 pounds
3 grain ingredients in the first 12 on the label at 300 pounds each

Meat – 320 pounds (first ingredient – NOT the most)
Grain – 900 pounds
Fat, Dried Beet Pulp, miscellaneous ingredients – 780 pounds

Meat as the first ingredient can mean you are feeding a meat flavored cereal!!

Buyer beware.

Try ONE bag of Kumpi (guaranteed to not make your pet sick) and see the
difference a label cannot tell you!

Why Corn IS So Good (coming soon to the site!!)

Research reported at the 2004 American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR)
International Conference on Food, Nutrition and Cancer, by Rui Hai Liu, M.D., Ph.
D., and his colleagues at Cornell University shows that whole grains, such as corn,
contain many powerful phytonutrients whose activity has gone unrecognized
because common research methods have overlooked them. Dr. Liu’s team
measured the antioxidant activity of various foods, assigning each a rating based
on a formula. Broccoli measured 80, Spinach 81, Apples 98, Bananas 65, but Corn
topped them all measuring a whopping 181.

The American Institute for Cancer Research recommends corn as part of a diet to
lower the risk of cancer and promote overall health.

Corn is also rich in the antioxidants lutein and zeaxanthin that have been associated
with lowering the risk of chronic disease.

Corn is also a good source of Thiamin which is a nutrient essential to good brain
cell health and mental function. The brain uses Thiamin to make a
neurotransmitter called acetylcholine which is essential for good memory.

Scientific research has determined that corn is a very good aid to prevent irondeficiency
anemia because it increases the absorption of this nutrient up to 50%.
The folic acid in corn is now known to be an important factor in preventing heart
disease according to studies that show folic acid can prevent a buildup of
homocysteine, whose long-term elevation has been linked to higher rates of heart
disease; folic acid helps break it down. Folic acid can also help to lower your risk
of heart attack and stroke.

Corn, when cooked, releases cancer-fighting compounds that are actually bound
to the vegetable fibers. Additionally, over 60% of the naturally occurring fat in corn is
the Essential Fatty Acid powerhouse antioxidant Linoleic Acid aka Omega 6.

It is very unfortunate that many people won’t buy a dog food with corn, due to the
vast miseducation regarding the true scientific facts of this wonderful ingredient. A
study posted on my web site shows the high digestibility factor of corn.

There has been a flurry online of activity of well meaning amateurs who don’t have a
background in nutrition. Think - when people eat raw corn and see the husk in their
stool they may not realize that the body has extracted precious nutrients. The
corn itself was digested; the shell was just passed on. Nutrition is a science and
Kumpi products are formulated from proven research. Be careful that you don’t
confuse the science of nutrition with the science fiction of marketing hype and
advertising.

THE Best Dog Food Testimonial From A Veteran

Evy,

I just have got to tell you. You are on to something with this dog food. I have tried, tested, through trial and error oh gosh, over the last 15 years... maybe 20+ different dog foods. I have NEVER, EVER come across such a good product as Kumpi. Marilyn was NOT joking when she said it's the best dog food in the world. I believe it now. I am now passing around small bags of food to others that have dogs trying to convert, hehehe!

Le

First Ingredient Confusion

If you could help me, I read this online about corn: While corn is a good ingredient as a carbohydrate source, it should never be listed first on the ingredient panel. Why is corn your first ingredient if its bad for dogs.
Robert

I am so glad you asked Robert!! This is one area where I know consumers can get very confused about reading ingredient labels. Corn is a GREAT ingredient if you have the time to read through the rest of the Kumpi website and as to it being the first ingredient. Think about it this way. (I will make this as simple as I can, so bear with me!)

Pet food is formulated by the ton. Check this out.....

301 lbs - 1st ingredient - MEAT

300 lbs - 2nd ingredient - GRAIN

300 lbs - 3rd ingredient - GRAIN

300 lbs - 4th ingredient - GRAIN

It's just a quick way to try and show how the first ingredient is not necessarily the "base" of a dog food. How with 301 pounds of meat and 900 pounds of grain can this be considered a meat based food??

I encourage consumers to read their label from the prospective of how grains can be 'split out' and made to appear minimal, when actually adding them all up can make them maximal.

Also, "fresh" chicken, turkey, etc. is usually about 70% moisture and drops down the label considerably when the food goes to cook. Seeing the word "meal" behind a meat or poultry source merely means the moisture has been wicked out at low temperatures. There's been so much fear-mongering about the word 'rendered' associated with the word 'meal' and render also can simply mean 'moisture removed.'

Thanks for the question!! I know it's confusing to read so many conflicting thoughts online. Many bring incomplete facts, no facts and little or no understanding about the science of nutrition; which is what Kumpi is all about.

Ok, before I need to copyright this, I'm going to sign off for now!

Evy

ACL Surgeries

Thanks so much Evy!

Our border collie/aussie shepherd Lucky has been suffering from 2 separate ACL surgeries and probably arthritis. She is a new dog on your food! She can romp and play with her Beagle bud Zoey....and we know it's thanks to Kumpi food. We are your new fans!

Happy New Year to you and yours!
Lisa

Twice On New Years Day - YAY!

I have been feeding my two cats the Kumpi cat and it has been wonderful. They LOVE the food and NO LONGER throw up!! They used to throw up pretty much everyday.

I have a new puppy, a 3 month old Greater Swiss Mountain dog and had a question about your dog food. I can not feed him food with more then 26% protein because it will cause him to grow too fast. In fact, at 16 weeks I need to take him off puppy food and give him adult. I would like to feed him Kumpi dog but was wondering how much protein your food has. Your chart said 22% minimum but I wanted to make sure before buying it.

Thank you for the wonderful food and I look forward to hearing from you. :)

All the best,
Holly

This Makes A New Year Day Happy!!

Hi!

Our dog Cyrus was on XX for the first couple months we owned him (adopted from Maxfund here in Denver this past May). He never seemed all that healthy, though, his stools were goopy and his gas was noxious!

A coworker told me about Kumpi, and since I already was buying his food at Vitamin Cottage I decided to try it. Well, they were all out the first time I went in, and I had to wait another week before I could get him a bag.

Well, he LOVES IT! With the XX, he wouldn't finish his breakfast. Now he can't wait to be fed and he gobbles it down quickly. His stools are a lot firmer, his coat is shinier, and his gas is non-existent!

We will be temporarily moving to Alabama sometime this fall (for a year or so), and I will definitely be ordering his Kumpi food online. I don't know what else could possibly compare to this wonderful food... and I can't bear to feed him anything less.

Thank you so so so so much!!!

Vanessa
Lakewood, CO