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Blue Buffalo Freedom Healthy Weight Adult Grain-Free Chicken & Potatoes Dry Dog Food, 24-lb bag
Blue Buffalo

Freedom Healthy Weight Adult Grain-Free Chicken & Potatoes Dry Dog Food, 24-lb bag

Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $2.87/lb

Blue Buffalo Freedom Healthy Weight Adult Grain-Free Chicken & Potatoes Dry Dog Food, 24-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 49/100 (C) with Fair evidence. 1 controversial ingredient flagged. Score capped at 64 due to DCM-pulse trigger.

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

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

PQI

Named fresh meat paired with same-species meal, a strong extrusion architecture.

STACK

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

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