Natural Balance
Limited Ingredient Lamb & Brown Rice Recipe Large Breed Dry Dog Food, 26-lb bag
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C Evidence Fair
dry $2.81/lb
Natural Balance Limited Ingredient Lamb & Brown Rice Recipe Large Breed Dry Dog Food, 26-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
Named fresh meat paired with same-species meal, a strong extrusion architecture.
STACK
+5
Premium micronutrient forms such as chelated minerals or natural vitamin E.
MNI
+3
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
22%
min
Fat
12%
min
Fiber
4%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
40 total - 1 lamb protein animal
- 2 lamb meal protein animal
- 3 brown rice grain
- 4 brewers rice
- 5 oatmeal grain
- 6 dried yeast
- 7 canola oil fat
- 8 rice grain
- 9 dried plain beet pulp
- 10 natural flavor other
- 11 choline chloride supplement
- 12 potassium chloride mineral
- 13 salt mineral
- 14 taurine supplement
- 15 vitamin e supplement vitamin
- 16 ascorbic acid vitamin
- 17 niacin supplement vitamin
- 18 vitamin a supplement vitamin
- 19 thiamine mononitrate vitamin
- 20 d-calcium pantothenate vitamin
- 21 riboflavin supplement vitamin
- 22 pyridoxine hydrochloride vitamin
- 23 vitamin d3 supplement vitamin
- 24 vitamin b12 supplement vitamin
- 25 folic acid vitamin
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