Blue Buffalo
Life Protection Formula Senior Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe 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 Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 30-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 63/100 (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
7%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
66 total - 1 deboned chicken 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 starch
- 9 miscanthus grass fiber
- 10 dried tomato pomace
- 11 natural flavor other
- 12 flaxseed fat
- 13 dried yeast
- 14 chicken fat fat
- 15 fish oil fat
- 16 fish meal protein animal
- 17 l-threonine
- 18 potassium citrate
- 19 dicalcium phosphate mineral
- 20 direct dehydrated alfalfa pellets
- 21 salt mineral
- 22 calcium carbonate mineral
- 23 potassium chloride mineral
- 24 dried chicory root fiber
- 25 choline chloride supplement
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