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Nature's Protection Superior Care All Life Stages Small Breed Grain-Free Salmon & Krill Dry Dog Food, 3.3-lb bag
Nature's Protection

Superior Care All Life Stages Small Breed Grain-Free Salmon & Krill Dry Dog Food, 3.3-lb bag

Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $6.80/lb

Nature's Protection Superior Care All Life Stages Small Breed Grain-Free Salmon & Krill Dry Dog Food, 3.3-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 59/100 (C) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged.

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
26%
min
Fat
16%
min
Fiber
4.75%
max
Moisture
9%
max
Ingredients
26 total
  1. 1 salmon meal
  2. 2 dried potato
  3. 3 peas
  4. 4 sweet potato
  5. 5 poultry fat
  6. 6 krill meal
  7. 7 dried plain beet pulp
  8. 8 salmon oil
  9. 9 monocalcium phosphate
  10. 10 sodium aluminosilicate
  11. 11 flaxseed
  12. 12 fructooligosaccharide
  13. 13 yucca schidigera 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 l-tyrosine
  23. 23 l-cysteine
  24. 24 l-tryptophan
  25. 25 mixed tocopherols

Showing first 25 of 26. Position 1-5 has the largest weight.