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

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

Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $7.27/lb

Nature's Protection Superior Care Adult Small Breed Grain-Free Salmon Dry Dog Food, 3.3-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 62/100 (B) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Reasonable protein quality. salmon meal delivers solid amino acid coverage..

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Reasonable protein quality. salmon meal delivers solid amino acid coverage.

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
22%
min
Fat
13%
min
Fiber
5.25%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
23 total
  1. 1 salmon meal
  2. 2 potato
  3. 3 sweet potato
  4. 4 poultry fat
  5. 5 peas
  6. 6 dried plain beet pulp
  7. 7 salmon oil
  8. 8 dicalcium phosphate
  9. 9 sodium aluminosilicate
  10. 10 tapioca starch
  11. 11 fructooligosaccharide
  12. 12 yucca schidigera extract
  13. 13 green tea extract
  14. 14 cranberries
  15. 15 pot marigold
  16. 16 iron sulfate
  17. 17 calcium iodate
  18. 18 copper sulfate
  19. 19 manganese sulfate
  20. 20 zinc sulfate
  21. 21 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.
  22. 22 mixed tocopherols
  23. 23 rosemary extract