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Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula Senior Lamb & Brown Rice Recipe No Corn, Wheat or Soy Dry Dog Food, 30-lb bag
Blue Buffalo

Life Protection Formula Senior Lamb & Brown Rice Recipe No Corn, Wheat or Soy Dry Dog Food, 30-lb bag

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

Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula Senior Lamb & Brown Rice Recipe No Corn, Wheat or Soy Dry Dog Food, 30-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 61/100 (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

Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

AAFCO formulation inferred from declared adult maintenance. Verbatim statement not published by retailer.

ACF

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
19%
min
Fat
10%
min
Fiber
15.5%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
67 total
  1. 1 lamb
  2. 2 brown rice
  3. 3 oatmeal
  4. 4 fish meal
  5. 5 barley
  6. 6 peas
  7. 7 pea starch
  8. 8 potato
  9. 9 potato starch
  10. 10 miscanthus grass
  11. 11 natural flavor
  12. 12 flaxseed
  13. 13 chicken fat
  14. 14 dried yeast
  15. 15 powdered cellulose
  16. 16 chicken meal
  17. 17 fish oil
  18. 18 potassium citrate
  19. 19 direct dehydrated alfalfa pellets
  20. 20 dried tomato pomace
  21. 21 choline chloride
  22. 22 salt
  23. 23 dried chicory root
  24. 24 alfalfa nutrient concentrate
  25. 25 calcium carbonate

Showing first 25 of 67. Position 1-5 has the largest weight.