price = quality?

[C8lyn]

G'day All.

I'm just wondering if the price of the food you buy says anything about the quality.
I recently bought a nice sized container of Aqua One spirulina flakes for only $11 from Pet Barn. I was a bit hesitant at first because my thoughts were that maybe it isn't very good because it's so much cheaper than the others. Other food I buy costs around the $20 mark for half as much such as the Tetra brands.

Opinions?

How do you know what to buy when there's so much variety?

 

[Lornek8]

Read the label.
Most foods sold in the US have nutritional data & ingredients similar to what is found on human food products. Read the label & look at the ingredients used. Those with high amounts of grain products are usually poorer quality than those that use less as the grain products are simply used as fillers. What you'll find in "spirulina/algae" foods of lesser quantity will have large amounts of fillers and lesser quanitites of algae/spirulina.

 

[Irene0100]

usually you get what you pay for, but there are bargins to be had if you are savvy.