Ingredient Comparison of Commercial Sugar Glider Diets

Like anything else, there are low-quality pet diets and high-quality pet diets. Some companies throw together the cheapest food that they can make which ends up with low-quality ingredients with common 'fillers' such as Corn, Soy, Oatmeal, Cereal, and Barley. Below we've listed a handful of popular sugar glider foods so that you can review the ingredients for easy comparion. 

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Exotic Nutrition ZooPro Glider Essential

Ingredients: chicken meal, brown rice, ground grain sorghum, whitefish meal, chicken fat (preserved), dried plain beet pulp, egg product, pea protein, dried tomato pomace, natural flavor, brewers dried yeast, whole ground flaxseed, herring meal, menhaden fish oil (preserved), sunflower lecithin, coconut oil (preserved), potassium chloride, dl-methionine, choline chloride, l-lysine taurine

Guaranteed Analysis: crude protein 31.00% (min), crude fat 14.00% (min), crude fiber 4.00% (max), moisture 10.00% (max), calcium (min) 1.55%, phosphorus (min) 1.06%.

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Exotic Nutrition Instant-HPW | Original

Ingredients: dried powdered whole eggs, whey protein concentrate, soy protein concentrate, dried powdered honey, maltodextrin, dextrose, gum arabic, guar gum, flax seeds, powdered bee pollen, calcium carbonate, taurine, lysine, natural flavorings

Guaranteed Analysis: crude protein (min) 39.00%, crude fat (max) 13.00%, crude fiber (max) 6.00%,  moisture 10.00% (max), calcium (min) 0.80%, calcium (max) 1.00%, phosphorus (min) 0.40%, selenium (min) 0.017 ppm, vitamin a (min) 1.60 kiu/lb.

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Sunseed Vita Prima

Ingredients: feeding oat meal, porcine meal, cereal food fines, poultry meal, wheat middlings, dehulled soybean meal, ground wheat, ground flax seed, dehydrated alfalfa meal, brewers dried yeast, fish meal, ground celery, ground parsley, ground bell peppers, ground tomatoes, fructooligosaccharide, ground corn, vegetable oil, calcium carbonate, honey

Guaranteed Analysis: crude protein (min) 25%, crude fat (min) 6%, crude fiber (max) 6%, moisture (max) 14%, calcium (min) 2%, calcium (max) 2.5%, phosphorus (min) 1.1%, vitamin a (min) 12,000 iu/kg, vitamin d3 (min) 3,000 iu/kg, vitamin e (min) 100 iu /kg,, ascorbic acid (vitamin c) (min) 250 mg/kg, omega-3 fatty acids (min) 0.2%, total microorganisms (min) 30,000 cfu/g, (l. acidophilus, l. casei, b. bifidum, e. faecium, a. oryzae).

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Pretty Pets Sugar Glider Food

Ingredients: hydrolyzed pork, ground corn, ground wheat, fructose, ground oat groats, dicalcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, raisins, papaya, banana, pineapple, choline chloride, dl-methionine, l-lysine, magnesium oxide, betaine anhydrous, diatomaceous earth, l-ascorbyl-2 polyphosphate, vitamin e supplement, manganous oxide

Guaranteed Analysis: crude protein (min) 24%, crude fat/oil (min) 5%, crude fiber (max) 2%, moisture (max) 10%

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Pet-Pro Happy Glider (Honey N' Marshmallow)

Ingredients: toasted yellow corn flour, extruded soybean meal, toasted barley flour, soybean meal, corn gluten meal, whole dried eggs, calcium carbonate, dicalcium phosphate, fish meal, flax meal, sweet dried whey, vitamin e supplement, animal plasma, salt, potassium chloride, vitamin a acetate, d-activated animal sterol  (source of vitamin d3), dl-alpha tocopheryl acetate (source of vitamin e), menadione sodium bisulphate complex (source of vitamin k), vitamin b-12 supplement

Guaranteed Analysis: crude protein- not less than 22.0%, crude fat- not less than 10.0%, crude fiber- not more than 6.0%, moisture- not more than 12.0%

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Pocket Pets Glide-R-Chow

Ingredients: whole cereal grains (including whole grain barley, whole grain yellow corn, whole grain brown rice), plant proteins (including whole grain soy, soybean meal, whole grain flaxmeal, corn gluten meal), animal proteins (including sweet dried whey, whole dried egg, fish meal, animal plasma), minerals, vitamins, trace minerals, - vitamin e supplement, salt, sodium chloride, vitamin a acetate, d-activated animal sterol (source of vitamin d3), dl-alpha tocopheryl acetate (source of vitamin e), menadone sodium bisulphate complex (source of vitamin k), vitamin b-12 supplement, calcium pantothenate, niacin supplement, riboflavin supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamine mononitrate, biotin, folic acid, ferrous sulfate, zinc oxide

Guaranteed Analysis: crude protein - not less than 21%, crude fat - not less than 10%, crude fiber - not more than 7%, moisture - not more than 12%, calcium - not <1.1% and not >2.0%, phosphorus - not less than .55%, vitamin a - not less than 3200 iu/lb, vitamin d3 - not less than 1000 iu/lb, vitamin e - not less than 80 kiu/lb

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Critter Love Fruity Kibble

Ingredients: toasted yellow corn flour, extruded soybean meal, toasted barley flour, soybean meal, corn gluten meal, whole dried eggs, calcium carbonate, dicalcium phosphate, fish meal, flax meal, sweet dried whey, vitamin e supplement, animal plasma, salt, potassium chloride, vitamin a acetate, d-activated animal sterol (source of vitamin d3), dl-alpha tocopheryl acetate (source of vitamin e), menadione sodium bisulphate complex (source of vitamin k), vitamin b-12 supplement

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Vitakraft Vitasmart Sugar Glider 

Ingredients: feeding oat meal, porcine meal, cereal food fines, poultry meal, wheat middlings, dehulled soybean meal, ground wheat, ground flax seed, dehydrated alfalfa meal, brewers dried yeast, fish meal, ground celery, ground parsley, ground bell peppers, ground tomatoes, fructooligosaccharide, ground corn, vegetable oil, calcium carbonate, honey

Guaranteed Analysis: crude protein (min) 25%, crude fat (min) 6%, crude fiber (max) 6%, moisture (max) 12%, calcium (min) 2.3%, calcium (max) 2.8%, phosphorus (min) 0.8%, vitamin a (min) 12,000 iu/kg, vitamin d3 (min) 3,000 iu/kg, vitamin e (min) 100 iu/kg, ascorbic acid (vitamin c) (min) 250 mg/kg, omega-3 fatty acids (min) 0.2%, total microorganisms (min) 30,000 cfu/g (l. acidophilus, l. casei, e. faecium, b. bifidum, a. oryzae). contains a source of live (viable) naturally occurring microorganisms.