Blue Buffalo
Life Protection Formula Senior Beef & Brown Rice Recipe No Corn, Wheat or Soy Dry Dog Food, 30-lb bag
0out of 100
B Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $2.43/lb
Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula Senior Beef & Brown Rice Recipe No Corn, Wheat or Soy Dry Dog Food, 30-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 64/100 (B) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Quality fat sources: named fat with marine oil (EPA and DHA source)..
Graded by The Sniff System
Why this score
Quality fat sources: named fat with marine oil (EPA and DHA source).
FQI
+12
Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.
CQI
+12
AAFCO formulation inferred from declared adult maintenance. Verbatim statement not published by retailer.
ACF
+4
Controversial ingredients · 1
- sodium seleniteSynthetic 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
14%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
68 total - 1 beef protein animal
- 2 brown rice grain
- 3 oatmeal grain
- 4 barley grain
- 5 chicken meal protein animal
- 6 peas legume
- 7 pea starch
- 8 potato vegetable
- 9 potato starch
- 10 fish meal protein animal
- 11 powdered cellulose fiber
- 12 natural flavor other
- 13 miscanthus grass fiber
- 14 dried yeast
- 15 chicken fat fat
- 16 flaxseed fat
- 17 fish oil fat
- 18 dicalcium phosphate mineral
- 19 potassium citrate
- 20 calcium carbonate mineral
- 21 direct dehydrated alfalfa pellets
- 22 choline chloride supplement
- 23 salt mineral
- 24 dried tomato pomace
- 25 l-lysine supplement
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