Instinct
Raw Boost Whole Grain Light Recipe with Real Chicken & Brown Rice Dry Dog Food, 18-lb bag
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C Evidence Fair
dry $5.00/lb
Instinct Raw Boost Whole Grain Light Recipe with Real Chicken & Brown Rice Dry Dog Food, 18-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
+16
Quality fat sources: named fat with marine oil (EPA and DHA source).
FQI
+12
Premium micronutrient forms such as chelated minerals or natural vitamin E.
MNI
+4
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
7.5%
min
Fiber
7%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
56 total - 1 fish meal protein animal
- 2 barley grain
- 3 chicken protein animal
- 4 millet grain
- 5 brown rice grain
- 6 oatmeal grain
- 7 tomato pomace fiber
- 8 beet pulp fiber
- 9 chicken meal protein animal
- 10 citrus pulp
- 11 freeze-dried chicken
- 12 natural flavor other
- 13 carrots vegetable
- 14 ground flaxseed fat
- 15 freeze-dried chicken liver
- 16 apples fruit
- 17 salt mineral
- 18 pumpkin seeds
- 19 salmon oil fat
- 20 cranberries fruit
- 21 blueberries fruit
- 22 freeze-dried chicken heart
- 23 vitamin e supplement vitamin
- 24 niacin supplement vitamin
- 25 thiamine mononitrate vitamin
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