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Royal Canin Size Health Nutrition Small Indoor Puppy Dry Dog Food, 2.5-lb bag
Royal Canin

Size Health Nutrition Small Indoor Puppy Dry Dog Food, 2.5-lb bag

Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $8.80/lb

Royal Canin Size Health Nutrition Small Indoor Puppy Dry Dog Food, 2.5-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 57/100 (C) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Primary concern: plant-protein-dominated formula. brewers rice as the #1 ingredient..

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

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

FQI

Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

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

ACF

Plant-protein-dominated formula. brewers rice as the #1 ingredient.

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
25%
min
Fat
16%
min
Fiber
3.8%
max
Moisture
10.5%
max
Ingredients
41 total
  1. 1 brewers rice
  2. 2 chicken by-product meal
  3. 3 corn
  4. 4 chicken fat
  5. 5 dried plain beet pulp
  6. 6 wheat gluten
  7. 7 natural flavors
  8. 8 corn gluten meal
  9. 9 monocalcium phosphate
  10. 10 vegetable oil
  11. 11 sodium aluminosilicate
  12. 12 potassium chloride
  13. 13 pea fiber
  14. 14 calcium carbonate
  15. 15 taurine
  16. 16 fish oil
  17. 17 rice
  18. 18 fructooligosaccharides
  19. 19 sodium tripolyphosphate
  20. 20 salt
  21. 21 choline chloride
  22. 22 hydrolyzed yeast
  23. 23 l-lysine
  24. 24 marine microalgae oil
  25. 25 dl-methionine

Showing first 25 of 41. Position 1-5 has the largest weight.