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Blue Buffalo True Solutions Small Breed Care Formula Adult Dry Dog Food, 11-lb bag
Blue Buffalo

True Solutions Small Breed Care Formula Adult Dry Dog Food, 11-lb bag

Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $3.63/lb

Blue Buffalo True Solutions Small Breed Care Formula Adult Dry Dog Food, 11-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 80/100 (A) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Strong protein profile with deboned chicken as the primary ingredient, delivering high biological value..

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

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

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
28%
min
Fat
16%
min
Fiber
4%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
69 total
  1. 1 deboned chicken
  2. 2 chicken meal
  3. 3 barley
  4. 4 oatmeal
  5. 5 brown rice
  6. 6 salmon meal
  7. 7 chicken fat
  8. 8 flaxseed
  9. 9 dried plain beet pulp
  10. 10 natural flavor
  11. 11 fish oil
  12. 12 potassium chloride
  13. 13 salt
  14. 14 direct dehydrated alfalfa pellets
  15. 15 dried tomato pomace
  16. 16 hydrolyzed yeast
  17. 17 fructooligosaccharides
  18. 18 choline chloride
  19. 19 alfalfa nutrient concentrate
  20. 20 calcium carbonate
  21. 21 yeast culture
  22. 22 dicalcium phosphate
  23. 23 l-threonine
  24. 24 vitamin e supplement
  25. 25 dl-methionine

Showing first 25 of 69. Position 1-5 has the largest weight.