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Abound Chicken & Brown Rice Dog Food Review

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Ingredient Analysis

When evaluating a dog food, the first five ingredients can tell you a lot about the quality of a product as they make up the bulk of the product. Ideally, you're looking for quality protein sources with a minimum of cheap starches, fillers or by-products. Continuing down the ingredient list, look for ingredients that resemble real food with a minimal number of unpronounceable chemicals - the same as you would for human food.

Abound Chicken & Brown Rice Dog Food includes the following:

Note - a bolded ingredient in the above tables indicates it is one of the first five ingredients listed by the product manufacturer.

In this case, Abound Chicken & Brown Rice Dog Food's most plentiful ingredient listed is deboned chicken, which is considered a quality protein source. It also contains chicken meal as additional quality protein sources.

Additionally, Abound Chicken & Brown Rice Dog Food also contains as top ingredients whole ground brown rice. These types of ingredients are typically used as bulk-adding fillers and are not required in your dog's diet. However, they are sometimes used to help maintain the kibble shape in dry foods.

Allergen alert: This product contains menhaden fish meal which may be problematic for dogs who suffer from seafood food allergies.

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Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 1160 dog foods in our database, Abound Chicken & Brown Rice Dog Food has:

• significantly less protein than average
• significantly more carbohydrates than average
• less fat than average
• significantly less fiber than average

In general, dogs have been shown to do better with a higher protein, medium fat, lower carb diet with sufficient moisture. However, specialty diets as recommended by your veterinarian may prioritize a different nutritional breakdown.

Calorie Breakdown

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All the product information on this page is based on data collected from the manufacturer's product website as retrieved on June 20, 2017.

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Ingredients

Ingredients as published by the dog food manufacturer:

Deboned Chicken, Chicken Meal, Whole Ground Brown Rice, Whole Ground Barley, Oat Meal, Rice Bran, Animal Fat (preserved With Mixed Tocopherols), Menhaden Fish Meal, Peas, Natural Flavor, Potassium Chloride, Brewers Dried Yeast, Dried Whey, Tomato Pomace (source Of Lycopene), Sweet Potatoes, Flaxseed Meal, Alfalfa Meal, Carrots, Canola Oil, Salt, Blueberries, Cranberries, Barley Grass, Dried Parsley, Dried Kelp, Yucca Schidigera Extract, L-carnitine, L-lysine, Dried Chicory Root, Beta Carotene, Choline Chloride, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Dl-alpha Tocopherol, Vitamin A Supplement, Manganous Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Niacin Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (source Of Vitamin K Activity), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide, Riboflavin Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Cobalt Carbonate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Sodium Selenite, Iron Amino Acid Chelate, Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Dried Lactobacillus Acidolphilus Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Casei Fermentation Product, Dried Bifidobacterium Thermophilum Fermentation Product, Dried Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product.

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*Note that some nutritional percentages reported are only estimated values, and are indicated as such as (est). Each dog food manufacturer is required by law to publish a Guaranteed Analysis, which defines each product's maximum values of fiber, moisture and ash in addition to the minimum values of protein and fat contained within. Exact nutritional percentages are not available and hence all calculated values (including carbohydrate percentages and calorie amounts) are determined using these minimum and maximum published values and therefore may differ from actual values.

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