Pet Nutritionist Reviews The Honest Kitchen | Dehydrated, Clusters, and More!

My four dogs eat great variety that includes commercial frozen raw, commercial dehydrated raw, home cooked balanced and commercial cooked. The commercial foods I feed are top of the line and vetted by PetFoodList consumer reports, your channel and other very reputable dog nutritionists. However, despite their broad palette, they disliked the Honest Kitchen dehydrated crumble and all got severe diarrhea. In fact, it was the only food I have tried that I returned to the store. It was that problematic and concerning. Although I wanted to love HK company, I don't like the Sodium Selenite form of Selenium in all their foods and my dogs don't really like any of the formulations they sell.

Their food is high carb but for dogs with pancreatic issues…this is perfect. These dogs cannot handle a lot of protein…ie it has it's place…

Can I use bone broth to hydrate the dehydrated food?

Can you please do a brand review on open farms?

We started Honest Kitchen over our current kibble to change over from 4Health kibble. It's expensive but I took your advice and started looking into the first five ingredients and worked from there

Thank you for this video! I love that you break everything down! We've been feeding frozen raw Primal Pronto and it's getting too expensive. This seems like a great option to get the nutrition while saving a bit of money. When you say "add additional meat" to the dehydrated food, what would that look like? Organ meat? Ground meat (cooked? raw? partially cooked)? And, how much would you recommend to add?

I just buy Purina Beyond Simply. It’s what I can afford and the ingredients are limited and seem decent.

I just ordered the base mix so we can add our own cooked and raw proteins at home. I feel like it’s the perfect mix of the convenience of kibble and the health benefits of raw/home cooked. I was feeding the dehydrated complete meals but I also felt like there was a lot of potato and not enough meat. Overall, I still love them as a company. I’m really excited to start using the base mix! 😊

I bought this for my puppy but he doesn't like it

What are your thoughtS about the GRAIN free my vet disagrees with the grain fee label? TIA

I do fresh with base mix n half dehydrated mix

The Honest Kitchen also chooses women led suppliers/companies if there are any in that market. Lucy Postins is one of my favorite ppl that I haven't met yet.

comparison between the honest kitchen clusters vs stella and chewys raw coated kibble?

I would like to have some information on NutriSource dog food please?

I just started using the honest kitchen limited ingredient fish recipe. I also not a fan of potato 🥔 In dog food. This LI formula does not have potato. Any thoughts on this formula vs the other HK dehydrated foods. Also their cup measurements are 8oz correct ? Love the videos, thanks so much for any feedback

Any ideas about Royal Canine kibble

how do you calculate the carb?

i think you calculated wrongly. read online that you should not subtract fiber, since fiber is a carb

Review open Farm

I second the comment about doing a video on fresh pet!
Trying to add more fresh food to my dogs and cats diets.
I know it's not the best but would be great to do a deep dive and use as a jumping step into higher quality ones!
For me it's that it's so easily available at my local pet store and other fresh type foods I've seen are subscription based which I don't want.

Only problem I have witnessed...dogs don't like it! What good is it if dogs refuse to eat it!

I started feeding my dog Acana in February (switched from science diet), she is a pit/lab mix and just turned 10, well just yesterday she started having bloody stool and I don’t know if it’s linked to the Acana dog food but I’m thinking about switching her to the honest kitchen since it could be better for their digestion. Thank you!

Can you tell me the difference between high protein vs grain free cat food?

I support the brand and what they stand for. The food smells wonderful when I add warm water. However, I have a big dog and feeding the recommended amount(dehydrated or clusters) made my dog need to go outside to poop about 4 times a day. I currently feed the grain free chicken clusters but I have to mix it with a majority of freshpet.

When I used the dehydrated mix, I had to use very hot water and let it sit for 10 minutes rather than the 3 minutes it said on the box. My dog did not digest it well until I started doing this. I also had to mix it with freshpet to not feed the recommended amount of THK but still meet caloric requirements.

Can you recommend a bak e d dry food that doesn't have peas,flax,corn rice and oat?

How much protein should I add? Replace maybe 1/4 of the dry mix with the same amount of protein?

Is this a good second choice to go if I want a cheaper version of CARNA4?

Dose The honest kitchen organic grain dog food dose it keep the stones away like is it for urine care for risk of most common urinary bladder stones and is it only the wet dog food for the honest kitchen organic grain dog food or can it be dry dog food of the honest kitchen organic grain dog food as well that keeps the stones away as well

How about smalls for cats

Glad I found your channel

We are feeding her honest kitchen thank you for this review. I am curious on your thoughts on Badlands and on probiotic choices. Thank you!

This Brand was not reviewed on your kibble and canned reviews. Curios why. TY

Instinct (be natural)!

Can you review just food for dogs vs honest kitchen?

Given that the cat food options had a better protein to carbohydrate ratio, would you recommend feeding a small dog the cat food option?

Could I add a freeze dried topper and if so what kind.

I read sweet potato causing Cancer in dogs.

What about in comparison to the Stella and chewy brand? Thinking of switching but also interested in fresh diet, raw or cooked and balanced

how do you feel about the just add water cat food formulas?

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CAN YOU PLEASE REVIEW ESSENCE DOG FOOD.... KIBBLE AND CAN DOG FOOD.... THAT'S WHAT I FEED MY DOGS ALONG WITH SOME TOPPERS AND GOATS MILK, BUT, I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW IF I'm DOING GOOD BY CHOOSING THAT KIBBLE.... THANK YOU!!

I thank you for your review on the HK. I have three labs and My youngest Maggi, 6 and Holli is 12 eat the grain beef dehydrated and Maggi will have the beef clusters in the morning. Tucker, our middle pup eats science Diet Derm complete. sever environmental allergies. what do you recommend as a topper if has high kidney (SDMA) blood results?

Thank you for this review! Super thorough and informative. I picked up some of the dehydrated food for my picky puppy today without doing any prior research and I wanted to make sure I made a decent choice. So relieved now, though as you recommended, I will be sure to include extra protein.

I dont think it costs more than a specialized vet kibble diet, cost is about the same, and it probably saveing in vet visits in the long run.

We found Honest Kitchen in 2013, we had four dogs at the time, put them all on this food and within a few months we saw marked improvements in their health: bright eyes, shiny and softer coat, better teeth, more energy, etc
We never give our dogs any other brand

I like that it’s human grade. That’s kinda a must. And I don’t understand when you said, you’d rather see sweet potatoes instead of russet potatoes, because they have less sugar??? The sweet potato has 14X the sugar that a russet has. They are both nutritious. Nothing wrong with the russet potatoes

Its now (July 2024) $104.00 for 20lb bags, a couple weeks ago it was $88, don't want to spend that amount, it's ridiculous, can you please tell us the best to purchase on a budget?

Is Honest Kitchen still better than your "chefs kiss" dog kibble? I can't decide Honest Kitchen or Carna4

I was constantly meal prepping for my dogs, making home made food for them. But i have small children and it was getting hard and timely for me. I’m glad I found this brand and my dogs love it!!!

Great video.. I wish finding food for my dog was easy. Every brand i review it's always something that makes it not a good choice 😢. Just wish there was a shelf stable dog food available that you guys do recommend