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Natural Balance Specialized Nutrition Small Breed Digestive & Joint Health Adult Chicken & Oatmeal Formula Dry Dog Food, 12-lb bag
Natural Balance

Specialized Nutrition Small Breed Digestive & Joint Health Adult Chicken & Oatmeal Formula Dry Dog Food, 12-lb bag

Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $4.17/lb

Natural Balance Specialized Nutrition Small Breed Digestive & Joint Health Adult Chicken & Oatmeal Formula Dry Dog Food, 12-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 75/100 (A) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Strong protein profile with chicken as the primary ingredient, delivering high biological value..

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Strong protein profile with chicken as the primary ingredient, delivering high biological value.

PQI

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

FQI

Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

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
24%
min
Fat
14%
min
Fiber
4.5%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
55 total
  1. 1 chicken
  2. 2 chicken meal
  3. 3 oatmeal
  4. 4 sorghum
  5. 5 brewers rice
  6. 6 chickpeas
  7. 7 peas
  8. 8 pumpkin
  9. 9 chicken fat
  10. 10 turkey meal
  11. 11 chicken bone broth
  12. 12 flaxseed
  13. 13 brown rice
  14. 14 sweet potato
  15. 15 dried plain beet pulp
  16. 16 natural flavor
  17. 17 salmon oil
  18. 18 dried chicory root
  19. 19 malted barley flour
  20. 20 vitamin e supplement
  21. 21 ascorbic acid
  22. 22 niacin supplement
  23. 23 vitamin a supplement
  24. 24 thiamine mononitrate
  25. 25 d-calcium pantothenate

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