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Nature's Protection Superior Care Adult Small Breed Grain-Free Lamb Dry Dog Food, 3.3-lb bag
Nature's Protection

Superior Care Adult Small Breed Grain-Free Lamb Dry Dog Food, 3.3-lb bag

Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $6.62/lb

Nature's Protection Superior Care Adult Small Breed Grain-Free Lamb Dry Dog Food, 3.3-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 42/100 (D) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Primary concern: low protein quality. lamb meal delivers limited bioavailable amino acids..

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

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

ACF

Low protein quality. lamb meal delivers limited bioavailable amino acids.

PQI

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
21%
min
Fat
11%
min
Fiber
4.75%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
18 total
  1. 1 lamb meal
  2. 2 potato flakes
  3. 3 poultry fat
  4. 4 peas
  5. 5 pea protein
  6. 6 dried plain beet pulp
  7. 7 aluminum silicate
  8. 8 fructooligosaccharide
  9. 9 green tea extract
  10. 10 pot marigold
  11. 11 iron sulfate
  12. 12 calcium iodate
  13. 13 copper sulfate
  14. 14 manganese sulfate
  15. 15 zinc sulfate
  16. 16 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.
  17. 17 mixed tocopherols
  18. 18 rosemary extract