Optimeal
Nutrient Balance Lamb & Rice Recipe Small Breed Dry Dog Food, 8.8-lb bag
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C Evidence Fair
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
+15
Quality fat sources: named fat with marine oil (EPA and DHA source).
FQI
+12
No AAFCO statement. Nutritional completeness unverified.
ACF
−8
Controversial ingredients · 1
- sodium seleniteSynthetic 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 lamb protein animal
- 2 rice grain
- 3 barley grain
- 4 oats grain
- 5 chicken meal protein animal
- 6 pea protein protein plant
- 7 poultry fat
- 8 potato protein protein plant
- 9 natural flavor other
- 10 brown rice grain
- 11 turkey meal protein animal
- 12 dicalcium phosphate mineral
- 13 flaxseed fat
- 14 salmon oil fat
- 15 dried plain beet pulp
- 16 dicalcium phosphate mineral
- 17 dried chicory root fiber
- 18 choline chloride supplement
- 19 salt mineral
- 20 brewer's dried yeast
- 21 sodium hexametaphosphate
- 22 potassium chloride mineral
- 23 vitamin e supplement vitamin
- 24 taurine supplement
- 25 cranberries fruit
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