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Optimeal Nutrient Balance Lamb & Rice Recipe Small Breed Dry Dog Food, 8.8-lb bag
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Nutrient Balance Lamb & Rice Recipe Small Breed Dry Dog Food, 8.8-lb bag

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dry $4.06/lb

Optimeal Nutrient Balance Lamb & Rice Recipe Small Breed Dry Dog Food, 8.8-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

Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

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

FQI

Score capped at 59 due to no AAFCO statement.

CAP why?

No AAFCO statement. Nutritional completeness unverified.

ACF

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
25%
min
Fat
15%
min
Fiber
4%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
49 total
  1. 1 lamb
  2. 2 rice
  3. 3 barley
  4. 4 oats
  5. 5 chicken meal
  6. 6 pea protein
  7. 7 poultry fat
  8. 8 potato protein
  9. 9 natural flavor
  10. 10 brown rice
  11. 11 turkey meal
  12. 12 dicalcium phosphate
  13. 13 flaxseed
  14. 14 salmon oil
  15. 15 dried plain beet pulp
  16. 16 dicalcium phosphate
  17. 17 dried chicory root
  18. 18 choline chloride
  19. 19 salt
  20. 20 brewer's dried yeast
  21. 21 sodium hexametaphosphate
  22. 22 potassium chloride
  23. 23 vitamin e supplement
  24. 24 taurine
  25. 25 cranberries

Showing first 25 of 49. Position 1-5 has the largest weight.