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

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

Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $2.65/lb

Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula Senior Chicken-Free Salmon & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 30-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 42/100 (D) with Fair evidence. 1 controversial ingredient flagged. Score capped at 64 due to DCM-pulse trigger.

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

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

FQI

Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

Includes egg, named fish, or organ meat for diverse high-bioavailability protein.

STACK

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
18%
min
Fat
10%
min
Fiber
7%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
66 total
  1. 1 salmon
  2. 2 brown rice
  3. 3 barley
  4. 4 oatmeal
  5. 5 fish meal
  6. 6 dried tomato pomace
  7. 7 peas
  8. 8 potato
  9. 9 pea starch
  10. 10 flaxseed
  11. 11 natural flavor
  12. 12 dried yeast
  13. 13 canola oil
  14. 14 pea protein
  15. 15 miscanthus grass
  16. 16 calcium carbonate
  17. 17 fish oil
  18. 18 dicalcium phosphate
  19. 19 direct dehydrated alfalfa pellets
  20. 20 potassium citrate
  21. 21 salt
  22. 22 pea fiber
  23. 23 alfalfa nutrient concentrate
  24. 24 dried chicory root
  25. 25 choline chloride

Showing first 25 of 66. Position 1-5 has the largest weight.