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Life Protection Formula Large Breed Senior Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 30-lb bag
Blue Buffalo

Life Protection Formula Large Breed Senior Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 30-lb bag

Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $2.43/lb

Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula Large Breed Senior Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 30-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 61/100 (B) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Quality fat sources: named fat with marine oil (EPA and DHA source)..

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Quality fat sources: named fat with marine oil (EPA and DHA source).

FQI

Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

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

ACF

Controversial ingredients · 1

  • 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.

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

Guaranteed analysis
Protein
20%
min
Fat
10%
min
Fiber
7%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
65 total
  1. 1 deboned chicken
  2. 2 brown rice
  3. 3 oatmeal
  4. 4 barley
  5. 5 chicken meal
  6. 6 peas
  7. 7 pea starch
  8. 8 miscanthus grass
  9. 9 dried tomato pomace
  10. 10 natural flavor
  11. 11 flaxseed
  12. 12 chicken fat
  13. 13 fish meal
  14. 14 fish oil
  15. 15 dried yeast
  16. 16 potassium citrate
  17. 17 direct dehydrated alfalfa pellets
  18. 18 salt
  19. 19 calcium carbonate
  20. 20 dried chicory root
  21. 21 alfalfa nutrient concentrate
  22. 22 choline chloride
  23. 23 dicalcium phosphate
  24. 24 taurine
  25. 25 dl-methionine

Showing first 25 of 65. Position 1-5 has the largest weight.