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Dog Chow Complete Adult with Real Chicken Dry Dog Food, 40-lb bag
Dog Chow

Complete Adult with Real Chicken Dry Dog Food, 40-lb bag

Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $0.70/lb

Dog Chow Complete Adult with Real Chicken Dry Dog Food, 40-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 1/100 (F) with Fair evidence. 4 controversial ingredients flagged. Score capped at 39 due to 4 FLAG ingredients.

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

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

STACK

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

ACF

Score capped at 39 due to 4 FLAG ingredients.

CAP why?

Plant-protein-dominated formula. whole grain corn as the #1 ingredient.

PQI

Contains red 40. EU mandatory warning label since 2010. California AB 2316 banned 6 dyes from school foods (2024). HHS phase-out announced April 2025..

CIP

Controversial ingredients · 5

  • 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.
  • yellow 6
    Artificial color with no nutritional value.
  • yellow 5
    Artificial color with no nutritional value. Some dogs show allergic-type reactions.
  • red 40
    Artificial color with no nutritional value. Linked to behavioral effects in children; relevance to dogs is unclear but the ingredient serves only marketing purposes.
  • blue 2
    Artificial color. A 1990s industry-funded study reported brain tumors in male rats; subsequent reviews disputed methodology, but the additive provides no nutritional benefit.

Every flagged ingredient has a published basis (confirmed harm / regulatory action / precautionary). See methodology →

Guaranteed analysis
Protein
21%
min
Fat
10%
min
Fiber
4.5%
max
Moisture
12%
max
Ingredients
28 total
  1. 1 whole grain corn
  2. 2 meat and bone meal
  3. 3 corn gluten meal
  4. 4 beef fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols
  5. 5 soybean meal
  6. 6 chicken by-product meal
  7. 7 egg and chicken flavor
  8. 8 wheat
  9. 9 natural flavor
  10. 10 salt
  11. 11 potassium chloride
  12. 12 calcium carbonate
  13. 13 l-lysine monohydrochloride
  14. 14 choline chloride
  15. 15 mono and dicalcium phosphate
  16. 16 zinc sulfate
  17. 17 ferrous sulfate
  18. 18 manganese sulfate
  19. 19 copper sulfate
  20. 20 calcium iodate
  21. 21 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.
  22. 22 yellow 6 ⚠ Artificial color with no nutritional value.
  23. 23 l-tryptophan
  24. 24 yellow 5 ⚠ Artificial color with no nutritional value. Some dogs show allergic-type reactions.
  25. 25 red 40 ⚠ Artificial color with no nutritional value. Linked to behavioral effects in children; relevance to dogs is unclear but the ingredient serves only marketing purposes.

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