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Blue Buffalo Basics Skin & Stomach Care Turkey & Potato Recipe Senior Dry Dog Food, 24-lb bag
Blue Buffalo

Basics Skin & Stomach Care Turkey & Potato Recipe Senior Dry Dog Food, 24-lb bag

Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $2.92/lb

Blue Buffalo Basics Skin & Stomach Care Turkey & Potato Recipe Senior Dry Dog Food, 24-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 43/100 (D) with Fair evidence. 1 controversial ingredient flagged. Score capped at 64 due to DCM-pulse trigger.

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

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

FQI

Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

AAFCO formulation inferred from declared adult maintenance. Verbatim statement not published by retailer.

ACF

Score capped at 64 due to DCM-pulse trigger.

CAP why?

Contains high legume stacking. Three or more pulse-family ingredients in top 10. Split-ingredient evidence of pea/lentil/chickpea reliance..

CIP

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
18%
min
Fat
10%
min
Fiber
7%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
63 total
  1. 1 turkey
  2. 2 oatmeal
  3. 3 brown rice
  4. 4 potato
  5. 5 peas
  6. 6 turkey meal
  7. 7 pea fiber
  8. 8 natural flavor
  9. 9 pea protein
  10. 10 canola oil
  11. 11 fish oil
  12. 12 calcium carbonate
  13. 13 dicalcium phosphate
  14. 14 potassium chloride
  15. 15 choline chloride
  16. 16 pumpkin
  17. 17 dried chicory root
  18. 18 direct dehydrated alfalfa pellets
  19. 19 flaxseed
  20. 20 alfalfa nutrient concentrate
  21. 21 salt
  22. 22 taurine
  23. 23 vitamin e supplement
  24. 24 preserved with mixed tocopherols
  25. 25 l-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate

Showing first 25 of 63. Position 1-5 has the largest weight.