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Blue Buffalo Love Made Fresh Fully Cooked Natural Beef Meatball Small Breed Dog Food, 1-lb pouch, bundle of 8
Blue Buffalo

Love Made Fresh Fully Cooked Natural Beef Meatball Small Breed Dog Food, 1-lb pouch, bundle of 8

Evidence Fair
wet $8.90/lb

Blue Buffalo Love Made Fresh Fully Cooked Natural Beef Meatball Small Breed Dog Food, 1-lb pouch, bundle of 8 earns a Sniff Score of 59/100 (C) with Fair evidence. 1 controversial ingredient flagged. Score capped at 59 due to no AAFCO statement.

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Strong protein profile with beef as the primary ingredient, delivering high biological value.

PQI

Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

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

STACK

Score capped at 59 due to no AAFCO statement.

CAP why?

No AAFCO statement. Nutritional completeness unverified.

ACF

Contains added sugar. Nutritionally unjustifiable in any complete dog diet..

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
19%
min
Fat
9%
min
Fiber
2%
max
Moisture
60%
max
Ingredients
48 total
  1. 1 beef
  2. 2 chicken
  3. 3 egg
  4. 4 pea protein
  5. 5 carrots
  6. 6 peas
  7. 7 oat flour
  8. 8 natural flavor
  9. 9 brown rice
  10. 10 celery juice
  11. 11 flaxseed
  12. 12 oat fiber
  13. 13 vinegar
  14. 14 cane molasses
  15. 15 chicken fat
  16. 16 dicalcium phosphate
  17. 17 calcium carbonate
  18. 18 sodium acetate
  19. 19 dl-methionine
  20. 20 acetic acid
  21. 21 dried chicory root
  22. 22 lactic acid
  23. 23 l-threonine
  24. 24 l-tryptophan
  25. 25 magnesium sulfate

Showing first 25 of 48. Position 1-5 has the largest weight.