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Description
Hill’s Natural Flexi-Stix Beef Jerky Dog Treats are chock full of delicious natural ingredients and include glucosamine and chondroitin supplements to support healthy joints. The rich, hearty beef-flavored sticks are made with no artificial ingredients and easily break into bite-size pieces. These treats are a wonderful complement to Science Diet brand foods and a nutritious snack that your dog will love.
Price Score: 88 out of 100 Points
Variety Score: 49 out of 100 Points
Brand Score: 93 out of 100 Points
Ingredients Score: 69 out of 100 Points
Total Score: 78.4 out of 100 Points
Key Benefits
- Daily support for joint health
- Full of delicious natural ingredients and include glucosamine and chondroitin supplements to support healthy joints
- These rich, hearty beef-flavored sticks are made with no artificial ingredients
- Real beef is the #1 ingredient
- Recommended for adult and mature adult dogs
Ingredients
Beef, Whole Grain Oats, Wheat Flour, Wheat Starch, Glycerin, Dextrose, Flaxseed, Chicken Fat, Cane Molasses, Pork Gelatin, Water, Citric Acid for freshness, Chicken Liver Flavor, Salt, Chicken Cartilage (Source of Glucosamine Hydrochloride and Chondroitin Sulfate), Beef Flavor, Natural Flavors, Caramel color, Mixed Tocopherols for freshness, Rosemary Extract. Caloric Content 3,217 kcal/kg, 29 kcal/treatSee products with the same ingredients:
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Beef - Healthy ingredient
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Beef is the culinary name for meat from cattle, particularly skeletal muscle. Humans have been eating beef since prehistoric times. Beef is a source of high-quality protein and nutrients. Most beef skeletal muscle meat can be used as is by merely cutting into certain parts, such as roasts, short ribs or steak, while other cuts are processed.
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Beef Flavor (1)
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Cane Molasses (22)
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Caramel (9)
Caramel is a medium to dark-orange confectionery product made by heating a variety of sugars. It can be used as a flavoring in puddings and desserts, as a filling in bonbons, or as a topping for ice cream and custard.
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Chicken Cartilage Source of Glucosamine Hydrochloride (1)
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Chicken Fat - Healthy ingredient
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Chicken fat is fat obtained from chicken rendering and processing. Of the many animal-sourced substances, chicken fat is noted for being high in linoleic acid, an omega-6 fatty acid. Linoleic acid levels are between 17.9% and 22.8%. It is a common flavoring, additive or main component of chicken soup.
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Chicken Liver Flavor (14)
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Chondroitin Sulfate (17)
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Citric Acid - Controversial ingredient
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Citric acid is a weak organic acid that has the chemical formula C 6H 8O 7. It occurs naturally in citrus fruits. In biochemistry, it is an intermediate in the citric acid cycle, which occurs in the metabolism of all aerobic organisms.
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Dextrose (7)
Glucose is a simple sugar with the molecular formula C6H12O6. Glucose is the most abundant monosaccharide, a subcategory of carbohydrates. Glucose is mainly made by plants and most algae during photosynthesis from water and carbon dioxide, using energy from sunlight. There it is used to make cellulose in cell walls, which is the most abundant carbohydrate.
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Flaxseed - Healthy ingredient
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Flax, also known as common flax or linseed, is a member of the genus Linum in the family Linaceae. It is a food and fiber crop cultivated in cooler regions of the world. Textiles made from flax are known in the Western countries as linen, and traditionally used for bed sheets, underclothes, and table linen.
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Glycerin - Controversial ingredient
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Glycerol is a simple polyol compound. It is a colorless, odorless, viscous liquid that is sweet-tasting and non-toxic. The glycerol backbone is found in those lipids known as glycerides. Due to having antimicrobial and antiviral properties it is widely used in FDA approved wound and burn treatments.
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Mixed Tocopherols - Low-quality ingredient
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Natural Flavors - Controversial ingredient
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Flavor, flavour, or taste is the perceptual impression of food or other substances, and is determined primarily by the chemical senses of the gustatory and olfactory system. The "trigeminal senses", which detect chemical irritants in the mouth and throat, as well as temperature and texture, are also important to the overall gestalt of flavor perception.
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Pork Gelatin (4)
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Salt - Harmless ingredient
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Salt is a mineral consisting primarily of sodium chloride, a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in its natural form as a crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite. Salt is present in vast quantities in seawater, where it is the main mineral constituent.
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Water (68)
Water is an inorganic, transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance, which is the main constituent of Earth's hydrosphere and the fluids of most living organisms. It is vital for all known forms of life, even though it provides no calories or organic nutrients.
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Wheat Flour (34)
Wheat flour is a powder made from the grinding of wheat used for human consumption. Wheat varieties are called "soft" or "weak" if gluten content is low, and are called "hard" or "strong" if they have high gluten content. Hard flour, or bread flour, is high in gluten, with 12% to 14% gluten content, and its dough has elastic toughness that holds its shape well once baked.
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Wheat Starch (5)
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Whole Grain Oats (4)
Guaranteed Analysis
| Protein | 13.9% |
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| Fat | 7.3.0% |
| Crude Fiber | 1.2% |
| Carbohydrate/NFE | 73.1% |
| Calcium | 0.33.0% |
| Phosphorous | 0.39% |
| Sodium | 0.51% |
| Potassium | 0.24% |
| Magnesium | 0.09% |
| Total Omega-3 FA | 0.01% |
| Total Omega-6 FA | 0.1% |
| Chondroitin Sulphate | 469 ppm |
| Glucosamine | 54 ppm |