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

Life Protection Formula Puppy Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 30-lb bag

Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $2.43/lb

Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula Puppy Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 30-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 carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

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

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
27%
min
Fat
16%
min
Fiber
5%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
60 total
  1. 1 deboned chicken
  2. 2 chicken meal
  3. 3 brown rice
  4. 4 oatmeal
  5. 5 barley
  6. 6 fish meal
  7. 7 chicken fat
  8. 8 dried tomato pomace
  9. 9 peas
  10. 10 natural flavor
  11. 11 flaxseed
  12. 12 dried egg product
  13. 13 dried yeast
  14. 14 fish oil
  15. 15 salt
  16. 16 potassium chloride
  17. 17 choline chloride
  18. 18 direct dehydrated alfalfa pellets
  19. 19 dicalcium phosphate
  20. 20 dried chicory root
  21. 21 alfalfa nutrient concentrate
  22. 22 calcium carbonate
  23. 23 l-threonine
  24. 24 dl-methionine
  25. 25 preserved with mixed tocopherols

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