Natural Balance
Limited Ingredient Reserve Grain-Free Duck & Potato Small Breed Bites Recipe Dry Dog Food, 12-lb bag
0out of 100
C Evidence Fair
dry $4.42/lb
Natural Balance Limited Ingredient Reserve Grain-Free Duck & Potato Small Breed Bites 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. duck delivers solid amino acid coverage.
PQI
+19
Quality fat sources: named fat with marine oil (EPA and DHA source).
FQI
+12
Quality carbohydrate sources with declared fiber.
CQI
+12
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
24%
min
Fat
10%
min
Fiber
4%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
39 total - 1 duck protein animal
- 2 duck meal protein animal
- 3 potato vegetable
- 4 sweet potato vegetable
- 5 tapioca starch
- 6 dried yeast
- 7 canola oil fat
- 8 potato protein protein plant
- 9 flaxseed fat
- 10 natural flavor other
- 11 salmon oil fat
- 12 choline chloride supplement
- 13 vitamin e supplement vitamin
- 14 ascorbic acid vitamin
- 15 niacin supplement vitamin
- 16 vitamin a supplement vitamin
- 17 thiamine mononitrate vitamin
- 18 d-calcium pantothenate vitamin
- 19 riboflavin supplement vitamin
- 20 pyridoxine hydrochloride vitamin
- 21 vitamin b12 supplement vitamin
- 22 folic acid vitamin
- 23 vitamin d3 supplement vitamin
- 24 biotin vitamin
- 25 dl-methionine supplement
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