Horizon
Pulsar Grain-Free Salmon Recipe Dry Dog Food, 25-lb bag
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D Evidence Fair
dry $3.16/lb
Horizon Pulsar Grain-Free Salmon Recipe Dry Dog Food, 25-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 41/100 (D) with Fair evidence. 1 controversial ingredient 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
+18
Quality fat sources: named fat with marine oil (EPA and DHA source).
FQI
+12
Includes egg, named fish, or organ meat for diverse high-bioavailability protein.
STACK
+5
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
28%
min
Fat
15%
min
Fiber
5%
max
Moisture
9%
max
Ingredients
50 total - 1 salmon meal protein animal
- 2 red lentils legume
- 3 peas legume
- 4 pea starch
- 5 salmon protein animal
- 6 salmon oil fat
- 7 flaxseed fat
- 8 liquid egg product
- 9 carrots vegetable
- 10 apples fruit
- 11 broccoli vegetable
- 12 bok choy
- 13 cabbage vegetable
- 14 blueberries fruit
- 15 fructooligosaccharides fiber
- 16 yucca schidigera extract supplement
- 17 dried aspergillus niger fermentation extract
- 18 dried aspergillus oryzae fermentation extract
- 19 pineapple
- 20 dried trichoderma longibrachiatum fermentation extract probiotic
- 21 dried rhizopus oryzae fermentation extract
- 22 dried enterococcus faecium fermentation product probiotic
- 23 dried lactobacillus casei fermentation product probiotic
- 24 driedlactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product
- 25 driedbifidobacterium bifidum fermentation product
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