nutrisoft pellets

[Owlet]

Just got back to work after a 2 week vacation and we have a new pellet called "Nutrisoft" by Kaytee. Does anyone know much about this pellet and how it might compare to zupreem or roudybush?

 

[SailBoat]

First, when evacuating any new pellet check the ingredients list!
No Color Added!
No Sugar Added!
Little to no Salt Added!

Those three items clear the list quickly. Yes, there are more, but this will get you started with your review.

 

[Owlet]

First, when evacuating any new pellet check the ingredients list!
No Color Added!
No Sugar Added!
Little to no Salt Added!

Those three items clear the list quickly. Yes, there are more, but this will get you started with your review.

I didn't see any colorant or sugar. there was salt but it's halfway down the list. I'm rather excited that it's very first ingredient isn't corn. Zupreem naturals has added sugar... but zupreem naturals also looks to have a lot of dried fruits/veggies in the ingredients while this new stuff doesn't.

there was one ingredients that I wasn't familiar with so I googled it... it is a sugar alternative that comes from stuff like bananas and agave... I don't know if that makes it better or not. I'm not sure about the rest of the ingredients. But I'm really not seeing a lot of good stuff so I think I'll pass on these pellets unless someone can further inform me of what I'm looking at...

which is a shame.

Rice Flour, Ground Wheat, Vegetable Glycerin, Corn Gluten Meal, Dehulled Soybean Meal, Soybean Oil, Water, Sucrose, Ground Flax Seed (Source of Omega-3), Citric Acid (Preservative), Dried Molasses Beet Pulp, Lecithin, Dextrose, Gelatin, Dried Apple, Honey, Fructooligosaccharide, Dried Vinegar, Dicalcium Phosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Salt, Brewers Dried Yeast, L-Lysine, Sorbic Acid (Preservative), DL-Methionine, Potassium Chloride, Orange Oil, Propionic Acid (Preservative), Vitamin A Supplement, Choline Chloride, Mixed Tocopherols (Preservative), Yeast Extract, Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Manganous Oxide, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (Source of Vitamin K activity), Niacin, Rosemary Extract, Calcium Pantothenate, Copper Sulfate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid, Cholecalciferol (Source of Vitamin D3), Calcium Iodate, Biotin, Cobalt Carbonate, Sodium Selenite, Dried Bacillus Licheniformis Fermentation Product, Dried Bacillus Subtilis Fermentation Product.

Edit: looking through it again and idk how I missed "sucrose" which is just... sugar...

 

[DonnaBudgie]

First, when evacuating any new pellet check the ingredients list!
No Color Added!
No Sugar Added!
Little to no Salt Added!

Those three items clear the list quickly. Yes, there are more, but this will get you started with your review.

When I was weaning my budgie Rocky, I bought a bag of Nutrisoft o try because I liked the idea of them being softer. She was already eating Harrison's high potency superfine pellets and she still loves them none months later. The Nutrisoft package said they were for budgies and cockatiel and similar sized birds. First, the pellets were way to large for my budgie. She could eat the Harrison's pellets in one bite without having to crush them in her beak- she gobbles them right up- but there's no way she could swallow the Nutrisoft ones whole.
Second, the Nutrisoft ones were not noticably softer than other pellets. In fact, when I saw how large they were I tried the crush them with a mallet and I couldn't break them without a huge effort. So so gave them away to a friend with a GCC. I don't know if his bird liked them.

As for ingredients, I love the organic ingredients in the Harrison's high potency superfine but I'm not certain I'm convinced that Nutrisoft and other Kaytee pellets are "bad" or at least not as "good" for birds. When Rocky hatched and it was apparent that I was going to be Rock's foster Mama, I fed her mostly Kaytee Exact handfeeding formula in addition to several other, probably superior formulas, because I wanted her to have the best nutrition available, and using several formulas (I mixed them together after trying each separately for tolerance) made sense to me. Regardless, Rocky thrived on her formulas. She was a voracious eater and grew up the picture of health. Today she eats anything I put in front of her. So, is she so healthy and robust because she was essentially "built on" Kaytee Exact? Or is she less healthy than she appears because Exact is full of stuff that's not great for baby birds? Or because she eats Harrison's and a full varied diet? I don't know, but I'm very happy with the Harrison's. It's more expensive but a bag goes a very long way when it's part of a budgies diet.