Quote Originally Posted by marc515 View Post
Here is a response I received from Fromm:

"Thank you for your email and inquiry to Fromm Family Foods.

Actually, we do not offer a large kibble and have no plans to increase thesize. The reason for that is two fold. First, the size of thekibble is related to our cooking method which uses a slower pace and lowertemperature to avoid possible damage to essential proteins and amino acids thatcan happen in a flash or intense heating process needed for large kibble. Second is that smaller kibble pieces are better for a pet's digestive system asit processes easier for them."

Makes sense to me; so I'm not sure if your position of "saving money" is the only reason. I'm sure the ones with the larger kibble equipment don't want to change to smaller kibble as it would slow their production down and cost them money too.

I always believed larger kibble was better, but our guy wolfs down large and small just as fast, so the smaller kibble is better for his digestive system.

But hey, that's why there are so many varieties of kibble out there
This is not true. The way dry food is made is that the ingredients are mixed and heated way before the kibble is actually cut into pieces.

Dogs usually eat large pieces of things, relatively speaking. If you give a dog a very large chewy toy, large or small dog, each dog will bite off pieces that they are comfortable chewing and swallowing. Give the same size bully stick to a Maltese and the Maltese will bite much smaller pieces than a Labrador. They chew and swallow things to their respective limit, this is why large dogs should eat large pieces.

What do you expect Fromm to say? Ask any objective person with knowledge of this and they will tell you it is faster (and cheaper) to make small pieces rather than large. What is involved in making larger kibble vs small is changing the die at the end of the machine, very much like when a child plays with Play-Doh. Nothing different except for that.

If Fromm was concerned about protein quality, it wouldn't use so much vegetable protein, especially "pea protein" which is just a cheap ingredient.