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Blue Buffalo Baby BLUE Small Breed Puppy Chicken & Oatmeal Recipe Dry Dog Food, 4-lb bag
Blue Buffalo

Baby BLUE Small Breed Puppy Chicken & Oatmeal Recipe Dry Dog Food, 4-lb bag

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AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $3.12/lb

Blue Buffalo Baby BLUE Small Breed Puppy Chicken & Oatmeal Recipe Dry Dog Food, 4-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 74/100 (B) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Strong protein profile with deboned chicken as the primary ingredient, delivering high biological value..

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Strong protein profile with deboned chicken as the primary ingredient, delivering high biological value.

PQI

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

FQI

Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

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
29%
min
Fat
17%
min
Fiber
5%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
69 total
  1. 1 deboned chicken
  2. 2 chicken meal
  3. 3 oatmeal
  4. 4 barley
  5. 5 fish meal
  6. 6 peas
  7. 7 dried egg product
  8. 8 brown rice
  9. 9 chicken fat
  10. 10 dried tomato pomace
  11. 11 flaxseed
  12. 12 natural flavor
  13. 13 pea protein
  14. 14 fish oil
  15. 15 dicalcium phosphate
  16. 16 salt
  17. 17 direct dehydrated alfalfa pellets
  18. 18 potassium chloride
  19. 19 potato
  20. 20 dried chicory root
  21. 21 choline chloride
  22. 22 pea fiber
  23. 23 alfalfa nutrient concentrate
  24. 24 calcium carbonate
  25. 25 dl-methionine

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