The Good: Great ingredients, Incredibly healthy, Easy to prepare
The Bad: Very expensive, Myah is more hesitant than she is thrilled by it!
The Basics: The Honest Kitchen Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe is enjoyed, but not beloved, by Myah and, while expensive, it contains all one needs to reconstitute the mix into a dog food.
It was not long ago that Myah fell in love with The Honest Kitchen Grain Free Base Mix (reviewed here!), so when my local discount store got in more products from The Honest Kitchen, I started buying them right up. The first one that Myah has begun consuming is the box of The Honest Kitchen Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe dog food. The Honest Kitchen Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe dog food is a complete mix (just add water!) that makes the dry mix from the box into a complete - and completely nutritious - meal for dogs. Despite getting The Honest Kitchen Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe dog food at an incredible discount, it is hard to be as excited about this dog food as I was about the Grain Free Base Mix as Myah was less thrilled by the Embark than she was by her first culinary experiment with The Honest Kitchen.
The Honest Kitchen Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe requires only water to actually make the dog food. This dog food has less preparation than some of the other foods from The Honest Kitchen, but requires more preparation than virtually every mass produced dry dog food. Myah is worth the time and expense . . . but she does not seem to like this mix nearly as much as other mixes she has tried.
Basics
A single serving of The Honest Kitchen Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe dog food for a dog Myah’s size – she’s about seventy pounds now - is 2 1/2 cups of the dry mix per day, split into two meals. We have been feeding Myah only one meal a day from our box of The Honest Kitchen Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe in order to make the Embark last longer and so when we run out of The Honest Kitchen products, Myah would be able to go back to standard dry foods easier. As a result, we have made the ten pound box last almost two months! The Honest Kitchen Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe is a dehydrated meat and vegetable mix that is specially formulated for dogs, even though it has human grade quality ingredients. The Honest Kitchen Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe looks a lot like potpourri that is heavily powdered (like bullion) and is a high-quality dog food that is very good and based on prioritizing nutrition and the quality of the ingredients over affordability.
Ease Of Preparation
As a high quality dog food, The Honest Kitchen Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe is only half of what one needs in order to make this into a full meal. For a big dog like my Siberian Husky, each day she gets 1 1/4 cup of the Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe with 2 cups of very hot water. After the near-boiling water is added, stir up the concoction and wait three minutes. That gives the mix enough time to reconstitute. The three minutes also gives the dog food a chance to cool down so that Myah will not burn her mouth on it.
Myah’s Reaction
The Honest Kitchen Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe smells strongly like turkey bullion, salty and meaty. The Embark mix is very aromatic and smells like something a human would like.
Myah likes The Honest Kitchen Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe dog food. Unlike the Grain Free Base Mix, Myah will let the Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe dog food get cool and come to it whenever she is hungry enough to eat. The Honest Kitchen Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe does not attract Myah the way other The Honest Kitchen products do; she eats it, but not so eagerly and she does not seek it out the same way. Instead, she consumes it, but is not head over heels for it.
Nutrition
The Honest Kitchen Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe dog food smells like turkey soup when the bag inside the box is opened. The Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe is one of the most nutritious dog foods Myah has had. Made primarily of Dehydrated Turkey, organic flaxseed, and dehydrated potatoes, the ingredients are almost all natural and recognizable before becoming a chemistry equation designed to boost the health of the dog and preserve the vegetable ingredients.
According to the guaranteed analysis, The Honest Kitchen Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe dog food has at least 29% crude protein, 18% crude fat, but no more than 9.6% crude fiber and 7.8% moisture (before one adds water to it!). Even though one has to add water to reconstitute the The Honest Kitchen Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe dog food with water and meat, it is highly recommended one have adequate water available to one's dog while feeding them the Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe. Myah does not seem thirsty after consuming the The Honest Kitchen Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe dog food, though.
Overall
The Honest Kitchen Embark Grain Free Turkey Recipe dog food is all right, but very expensive for what it is and for how Myah reacts to it; were it not for the great nutrition the dog food provides, it would be more of a dud than an average food.
For other dog food reviews, please be sure to check out:
Purina Beneful Originals With Beef Dog Food
Diamond Naturals Beef Meal And Rice Formula dog food
Grandma Mae’s Country Naturals Adult Dog Food
5/10
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