Dr. Pol
Healthy Balance Chicken Recipe Dry Dog Food, 4-lb bag
0out of 100
C Evidence Fair
dry $6.25/lb
Dr. Pol Healthy Balance Chicken Recipe Dry Dog Food, 4-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
Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.
CQI
+13
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
12%
min
Fiber
3.5%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
46 total - 1 chicken protein animal
- 2 peas legume
- 3 brown rice grain
- 4 pearled barley grain
- 5 chicken fat fat
- 6 pumpkin vegetable
- 7 carrots vegetable
- 8 spinach vegetable
- 9 natural flavor other
- 10 flaxseed fat
- 11 salt mineral
- 12 potassium chloride mineral
- 13 yucca schidigera extract supplement
- 14 choline chloride supplement
- 15 dried enterococcus faecium fermentation product probiotic
- 16 dried lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product probiotic
- 17 dried lactobacillus casei fermentation product probiotic
- 18 dried lactobacillus plantarum fermentation product probiotic
- 19 chicory
- 20 glucosamine hydrochloride supplement
- 21 taurine supplement
- 22 chondroitin sulfate supplement
- 23 dried aspergillus oryzae fermentation product probiotic
- 24 vitamin e supplement vitamin
- 25 niacin supplement vitamin
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