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Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula Small Breed Senior Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 15-lb bag
Blue Buffalo

Life Protection Formula Small Breed Senior Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 15-lb bag

Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $2.93/lb

Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula Small Breed Senior Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 15-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 74/100 (B) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Reasonable protein quality. deboned chicken delivers solid amino acid coverage..

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Reasonable protein quality. deboned chicken delivers solid amino acid coverage.

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

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