Grain-Free Salmon & Field Pea Recipe All Life Stages Dry Dog Food, 4.5-lb bag
Blackwood Grain-Free Salmon & Field Pea Recipe All Life Stages Dry Dog Food, 4.5-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 55/100 (C) with Fair evidence. 1 controversial ingredient flagged. Score capped at 64 due to DCM-pulse trigger.
Graded by The Sniff System
Strong protein profile with salmon as the primary ingredient, delivering high biological value.
Quality fat sources: named fat with declared fat sources.
Named fresh meat paired with same-species meal, a strong extrusion architecture.
Contains high legume stacking. Three or more pulse-family ingredients in top 10. Split-ingredient evidence of pea/lentil/chickpea reliance..
Controversial ingredients · 1
- sodium seleniteSynthetic 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 →
- 1 salmon protein animal
- 2 salmon meal protein animal
- 3 peas legume
- 4 chickpeas legume
- 5 lentils legume
- 6 whitefish meal protein animal
- 7 tapioca
- 8 canola oil fat
- 9 potato vegetable
- 10 brewers dried yeast
- 11 chicken fat fat
- 12 dried tomato pomace
- 13 natural flavor other
- 14 dicalcium phosphate mineral
- 15 salt mineral
- 16 inulin fiber
- 17 calcium carbonate mineral
- 18 dried kelp supplement
- 19 apple
- 20 cranberries fruit
- 21 blueberries fruit
- 22 pumpkin vegetable
- 23 choline chloride supplement
- 24 taurine supplement
- 25 dl-methionine supplement
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