Beet pulp doesn't have any nutritional value whatsoever. Beet pulp is a controversial filler but is also a fiber source.
Example, Beneful has no nutritious value whatsoever. Beneful is like feeding your dog a bottle of store bought syrup for every meal.
Beneful Original ingredients: Ground yellow corn, chicken by-product meal, corn gluten meal, whole wheat flour, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), rice flour, beef, soy flour, water, meat and bone meal, propylene glycol, sugar, tricalcium phosphate, phosphoric acid, salt, animal digest, potassium chloride, sorbic acid (a preservative), dried peas, dried carrots, calcium propionate (a preservative), choline chloride, l-Lysine monohydrochloride, Vitamin E supplement, zinc sulfate, red 40, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, niacin, yellow 6, yellow 5, Vitamin A supplement, blue 2, calcium carbonate, copper sulfate, Vitamin B-12 supplement, brewers dried yeast, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, garlic oil, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin D-3 supplement, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), calcium iodate, folic acid, biotin, sodium selenite.
If the first ingredient is corn in dog food, it just goes to show you how much corn is actually in the dog food. I don't see wild dogs eating ground yellow corn, wild dogs know what to eat and I can guarantee you that any dog will choose a piece of meat over corn.
The first five ingredients in Beneful Original are ground yellow corn, chicken by-product meal, corn gluten meal, whole wheat flour, animal fat. No nutrients in this food. The first three to five ingredients in dog food should be meat. There's not many good dog foods out there and Beneful (Purina), Royal Canin and Eukanuba are some of the worst ones you can feed. Really look at the ingredients before choosing what food to feed to your dog. It's unbelievable the crap they put in dog food. Corn, chicken by-product meal, whole wheat flour and animal fat have no health benefits whatsoever. How do you suppose to know what you're really feeding your dog if the ingredient is animal fat?
The other bad ingredients after the first five are rice flour (the second flour used in the food. White rice is used as a fattening but many dogs are allergic to white rice), beef (the thing about this food having beef in it is that Beneful is not a high quality food so they're going to use the lowest quality of beef you could imagine), soy flour (the third flour used in this food. Soy isn't a healthy food, a lot of dogs are allergic to soy), water (high quality foods never list water as an ingredient, never), meat and bone meal (what type of meat and bone meal? What type of animal?), propylene glycol (anti-freeze), sugar (cancer loves sugar, cancer feeds off of sugar. Sugar should never be listed in pet food, period), tricalcium phosphate, phosphoric acid (found in drywall), salt, animal digest (What type of animal?). This food also has artificial flavorings and colors, niacin and menadione (menadione, a cancer causing agent) in it. If your dog food is multicolored, throw it out because it's no good. If your dog food has any of these ingredients listed above in it, throw the food out and switch to a high quality dog food brand.
My recommendation to you is to switch to a high quality dog food such as Back to Basics Dog Food, Orijen, Acana, Merrick Grain Free, Timberwolf Organics - Grain Free, SoJos and The Honest Kitchen. Please stay away from Eukanuba, Royal Canin, Iams, Pedigree, Science Diet, Kibbles N Bits, Good Life, Ol'Roy, Dad's Dog Food, Bil Jac, Diamond, Abady, Authority, 4Health, etc. I do recommend you to research dog food. I don't know if you saw or read the links that I posted but here here they are again, please watch and read:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9DTzDfYMxo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkyBv2wA8tU
http://www.bornfreeusa.org/facts.php?more=1&p=359
So many people just don't know about dog food and what's good and what's not. Eating potato chips and cookies is not a healthy diet for anyone. Eating a ton of wheat is not healthy for anyone. A diet based of meats, fruits and vegetables is a really good diet. A gluten free/wheat free/grain free diet is a great diet as well. A lot of dogs and people have allergies to wheat/gluten/grains and corn.
Ingredients are what makes the food what it is. Ingredients DO matter because the food you choose to feed will be the food that your dog is going to eat. It'll be your dog's daily diet.
I am not a believer in feeding a dog a kibble/food that has grains in it. A dogs kibble/food should be completely grain free. I do not believe grains give you energy. Dogs are going to have so much more energy and are going to be so much more healthier eating a high quality diet FREE of grains/wheat/gluten, unnamed meats, by-products, fillers, sugars, corns, chemicals, artificial flavorings and colors than a dog who is eating a food with any of these ingredients in it. Same goes with people, people are going to be so much healthier eating a diet free of grains/wheat/gluten, fillers, sugars, corn, chemicals, artificial flavorings and colors, etc, than someone who does eat foods with these ingredients in them on a daily basis.
Your dog is going to be so much more healthier eating a high quality food (any of the ones I recommended above are great). Good luck choosing and finding the right dog food to feed to your dog. A raw diet is another great diet, a raw diet is the best diet you can feed to your dog. A raw diet consists of 80% meat, 10% bone and 10% organs. Here are some very informative articles on feeding a raw food diet:
http://www.saddogsushi.com/faqs.html
http://www.healinghope.net/downloads/ca ... basics.pdf
http://rawdogranch.com/
http://www.rawfed.com/myths/
http://www.bravorawdiet.com/whyrawdiets.html
http://www.rawfeddogs.net/
http://www.netrophic.com/rawfeeding/
http://manteega.com/packlunch/articles/ ... alhome.htm
http://www.saddogsushi.com/why_raw.html
Dogs are carnivores.