New Zoomed Gourmet Tortoise Food

rearlpettway

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What does everyone think about Zoomeds new gourmet tortoise food.
Here are the ingredients. One of my concerns is the sweet potatoes. I was under the impression that sweet potatoes have a incorrect calcium:phosphorus ratio.

Suncured Oat Hay, Suncured Timothy Hay, Almond Hulls, Wheat Middlings, Ground Whole Wheat, Dried Carrots, Dried Hibiscus Flower Petals, Freeze Dried Sweet Potato, Suncured Alfalfa Meal, Calcium Carbonate, Escarole, Endive, Monocalcium Phosphate, Dicalcium Phosphate, Dried Dandelion Greens, Sodium Bicarbonate, Dried Lactobacillus acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus casei Fermentation Product, Dried Bifidobacterium bifidum Fermentation Product, Dried Enterococcus faecium Fermentation Product, Hydrated Sodium Calcium Aluminosilicate, Hydrolyzed Yeast, Brewers Dried Yeast, Yeast Culture, Garlic Extract, Anise Extract, Chinese Cassia Extract, Ginger Extract, Horseradish Extract, Juniper Extract, Yucca schidigera Extract, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of stabilized Vitamin C), Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Methionine Complex, preserved with Mixed Tocopherols, Rosemary Extract, Ascorbic Acid, Citric Acid (preservative), Lecithin, Silicon Dioxide, Choline Chloride, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Niacin Supplement, d-Calcium Pantothenate (source of Vitamin B5), Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (source of Vitamin K activity), Riboflavin Supplement (source of Vitamin B2), Thiamine Mononitrate (source of Vitamin B1), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of Vitamin B6), Biotin, Folic Acid, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Zinc Oxide, Manganous Oxide, Ferrous Sulfate, Copper Chloride, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite.
 

leigti

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It is probably a decent food. Although I'm not really familiar with the processed foods. I wouldn't worry too much about the sweet potato, not every single thing they eat has to have the correct calcium phosphorus ratio.
 

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