Dr. Gary's Best Breed
Coldwater Recipe Salmon & Whitefish Meals Dry Dog Food, 26-lb bag
0out of 100
C Evidence Fair
dry $2.83/lb
Dr. Gary's Best Breed Coldwater Recipe Salmon & Whitefish Meals Dry Dog Food, 26-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 59/100 (C) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Score capped at 59 due to no AAFCO statement.
Graded by The Sniff System
Why this score
Reasonable protein quality. salmon meal delivers solid amino acid coverage.
PQI
+16
Quality carbohydrate sources with declared fiber.
CQI
+13
Includes egg, named fish, or organ meat for diverse high-bioavailability protein.
STACK
+5
No AAFCO statement. Nutritional completeness unverified.
ACF
−8
Controversial ingredients · 1
- sodium seleniteSynthetic 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
25%
min
Fat
13%
min
Fiber
4%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
51 total - 1 salmon meal protein animal
- 2 brown rice grain
- 3 pearled barley grain
- 4 oatmeal grain
- 5 whitefish meal protein animal
- 6 canola oil fat
- 7 dried tomato pomace
- 8 millet grain
- 9 natural flavor other
- 10 lecithin
- 11 carrots vegetable
- 12 dried spinach
- 13 blueberries fruit
- 14 cranberries fruit
- 15 dried kelp meal
- 16 green mussel
- 17 monosodium phosphate
- 18 salt mineral
- 19 dicalcium phosphate mineral
- 20 dl-methionine supplement
- 21 choline chloride supplement
- 22 taurine supplement
- 23 l-lysine supplement
- 24 l-carnitine supplement
- 25 vitamin e supplement vitamin
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