why are these things in fish food?

[Onikun]

yeah my hamster food doesn't have ethoxyqin i buy the hagen bag the big blue one and i noticed it doesn't have ethoxyquin. at least its not listed. Anyway i noticed all the brands of fish food i have list ethoxyquin as a preservative. Not much I can do there. I'm not gonna make my own fish food.

 

[gabrielandco.]

which type by hagen doesn't have it? thanks onikun! (buying online, i can't always check ingredients, not aful list anyway)

 

[Onikun]

its big and blue. err just says hamster food or something. blue with a bit of yellow. contains corn, sunflower seeds and some bird seed and pellets. thats it or something like that. i'll take a picture later if i can, feeling kinda lazy right now

 

[gabrielandco.]

oops! i didn't realize hagen made hamster food...go ahead and feel lazy. never mind.....and, i was thinking hikari! double oops :coffee2:

 

[chefkeith]

I think someone ought to contact jungle labs to try to get their ingredients for their medicated fish food.

http://www.junglelabs.com/pages/contact.asp

and someone else should try to get a better answer from Hikari on why MSG is in their foods.

 

[mandimoron]

I'd never even heard of ethoxyquin until I read this thread. Fortunately, after doing the rounds and reading lots of fine print, I can safely say that none of my animals are being inadvertently fed any ethoxyquin, whatever it is.

Anyway i noticed all the brands of fish food i have list ethoxyquin as a preservative.

Is it really all that common in pet foods? I'm using the Big Al's house brand flake food, and it doesn't list ethoxyquin on the ingredients. It does, however, list "various vitamins and minerals" at the very end-- I wonder what exactly that means. o_o

 

[Onikun]

I think someone ought to contact jungle labs to try to get their ingredients for their medicated fish food.

http://www.junglelabs.com/pages/contact.asp

and someone else should try to get a better answer from Hikari on why MSG is in their foods.

If you contact jungle labs and ask for a Material Safety Data Sheet. MSDS They will send you one listing all the details of the product.

 

[reziztor]

Living in Korea is very hard on me because I am viciously sensative to high MSG doses. Everything is coated in the stuff here.

This is a great site on MSG: http://www.truthinlabeling.org/

 

[Roan Art]

I think someone ought to contact jungle labs to try to get their ingredients for their medicated fish food.

http://www.junglelabs.com/pages/contact.asp

and someone else should try to get a better answer from Hikari on why MSG is in their foods.

I find ALL of their products irritating because they either list a couple of ingredients or no ingredients at all.

Makes me wonder what they are hiding.

Roan

 

[josephish]

msg causes headaces

i dont know about food additives causing headaces but reading this thread hurts my head. i went to the new england aquarium today yeah and i noticed they fed their fish fresh vegtables(i also noticed them feeding smaller tanks in the hospital area with average flake foods 'that prodably was loaded with additives). i know alot of pet(dog and cat) owners that feed their pets homemade and or natural diets. well just like the rest of you we understand that diet is a very important subject and from the looks of these lengthy replys we all seem to have given it alot of thought.