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Blackwood Complete & Balanced Diet Chicken Meal & Brown Rice with Ancient Grains Recipe All Life Stages Dry Dog Food, 24-lb bag
Blackwood

Complete & Balanced Diet Chicken Meal & Brown Rice with Ancient Grains Recipe All Life Stages Dry Dog Food, 24-lb bag

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dry all life stages $2.91/lb

Blackwood Complete & Balanced Diet Chicken Meal & Brown Rice with Ancient Grains Recipe All Life Stages Dry Dog Food, 24-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 70/100 (B) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber..

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

Reasonable protein quality. chicken meal delivers solid amino acid coverage.

PQI

Quality fat sources: named fat with marine oil (EPA and DHA source).

FQI

Controversial ingredients · 1

  • sodium selenite
    Synthetic selenium source. Selenium is essential, but sodium selenite has a narrower safety margin than organic alternatives like selenium yeast. Better-formulated foods use the organic form.

Every flagged ingredient has a published basis (confirmed harm / regulatory action / precautionary). See methodology →

Guaranteed analysis
Protein
24%
min
Fat
12%
min
Fiber
4%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
57 total
  1. 1 chicken meal
  2. 2 brown rice
  3. 3 millet
  4. 4 oat
  5. 5 sorghum
  6. 6 chicken fat
  7. 7 rice
  8. 8 dried beet pulp
  9. 9 brewers dried yeast
  10. 10 fish meal
  11. 11 dried egg product
  12. 12 dried tomato pomace
  13. 13 natural flavor
  14. 14 flaxseed
  15. 15 salt
  16. 16 dicalcium phosphate
  17. 17 menhaden fish oil
  18. 18 potassium chloride
  19. 19 inulin
  20. 20 dried kelp
  21. 21 cranberries
  22. 22 blueberries
  23. 23 taurine
  24. 24 apple pomace
  25. 25 pumpkin

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AAFCO statement

Nutritionally Complete & Balanced: Chicken Meal & Brown Rice with Ancient Grains Recipe dog food is formulated to meet the nutritional levels established by the AAFCO dog food nutrient profiles for all life stages including growth of large size dogs (70 lb. or more as an adult).