Commercial diets are diets that you buy from pet stores. This page goes over the common foods sold for rats and why they're good or why they're bad.

Unrecommended Diets

Brown's Tropical Carnival Gourmet Rat & Mouse Food

High in fat, fatty seeds

Mix or Pellet? Mix Nutritional Analysis: 14% protein, 7% fat Noteworthy Ingredients:

Kaytee Forti-Diet Pro Health Mouse, Rat & Hamster

High in protein Contains indigestible ingredients

Mix or Pellet? Pellet Nutritional Analysis: 20% protein, 4% fat Noteworthy Ingredients: Alfalfa

Wild Harvest Daily Blend Rat & Mouse Food

A bit higher in fat Markets corn and molasses as "high-quality ingredients"

Mix or Pellet? Pellet Nutritional Analysis: 16% protein, 6% fat Noteworthy Ingredients: Molasses, low-quality corn and wheat ingredients

Tiny Friends Farm Reggie Rat & Mimi Mouse Food

Contains indigestible ingredients

Mix or Pellet? Pellet Nutritional Analysis: 14% protein, 4% fat Noteworthy Ingredients: Alfalfa

Higgins Sunburst Gourmet Blend Rat & Mouse Food

High in fat Contains indigestible ingredients Contains carcinogens

Mix or Pellet? Mix Nutritional Analysis: 14% protein, 7% fat Noteworthy Ingredients: Alfalfa, molasses, ground corn, timothy hay, vegetable oil

Recommended Diets

Oxbow Essentials Adult Rat Food

High-quality ingredients Good nutritional analysis