Natural Balance
Limited Ingredient Beef & Brown Rice Small Breed Recipe Dry Dog Food, 12-lb bag
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C Evidence Fair
dry $4.00/lb
Natural Balance Limited Ingredient Beef & Brown Rice Small Breed Recipe Dry Dog Food, 12-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. beef delivers solid amino acid coverage.
PQI
+17
Quality carbohydrate sources with declared fiber.
CQI
+13
Named fresh meat paired with same-species meal, a strong extrusion architecture.
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
23%
min
Fat
12%
min
Fiber
4.5%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
39 total - 1 beef protein animal
- 2 brown rice grain
- 3 brewers rice
- 4 beef meal protein animal
- 5 dried yeast
- 6 rice grain
- 7 canola oil fat
- 8 sorghum grain
- 9 natural flavor other
- 10 flaxseed fat
- 11 choline chloride supplement
- 12 dl-methionine supplement
- 13 taurine supplement
- 14 vitamin e supplement vitamin
- 15 ascorbic acid vitamin
- 16 niacin supplement vitamin
- 17 vitamin a supplement vitamin
- 18 thiamine mononitrate vitamin
- 19 d-calcium pantothenate vitamin
- 20 riboflavin supplement vitamin
- 21 pyridoxine hydrochloride vitamin
- 22 vitamin b12 supplement vitamin
- 23 folic acid vitamin
- 24 vitamin d3 supplement vitamin
- 25 biotin vitamin
Showing first 25 of 39. Position 1-5 has the largest weight.