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Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula Adult Fish & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 30-lb bag
Blue Buffalo

Life Protection Formula Adult Fish & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 30-lb bag

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AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $2.43/lb

Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula Adult Fish & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 30-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 63/100 (B) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Reasonable protein quality. whitefish delivers solid amino acid coverage..

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Reasonable protein quality. whitefish delivers solid amino acid coverage.

PQI

Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

Quality fat sources: named fat with declared fat sources.

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
22%
min
Fat
14%
min
Fiber
5%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
60 total
  1. 1 whitefish
  2. 2 fish meal
  3. 3 brown rice
  4. 4 barley
  5. 5 oatmeal
  6. 6 peas
  7. 7 pea starch
  8. 8 chicken fat
  9. 9 flaxseed
  10. 10 natural flavor
  11. 11 dried tomato pomace
  12. 12 dried yeast
  13. 13 chicken meal
  14. 14 calcium carbonate
  15. 15 direct dehydrated alfalfa pellets
  16. 16 salt
  17. 17 potassium chloride
  18. 18 dried chicory root
  19. 19 alfalfa nutrient concentrate
  20. 20 choline chloride
  21. 21 dicalcium phosphate
  22. 22 dl-methionine
  23. 23 l-threonine
  24. 24 vitamin e supplement
  25. 25 preserved with mixed tocopherols

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