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Abound Grain Free Chicken, Chickpea & Sweet Potato Recipe Review

Abound Dry 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 Grain Free Chicken, Chickpea & Sweet Potato Recipe 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 Grain Free Chicken, Chickpea & Sweet Potato Recipe's most plentiful ingredient listed is chicken, which is considered a quality protein source. It also contains chicken meal as additional quality protein sources.

Additionally, it's worth noting that this product does not list either by-products nor bulk-adding fillers within its top ingredients. By-products are considered inferior, lesser quality ingredients. Common fillers typically used to add bulk to the product are not required in your dog's diet. Together, their combined absence may be indicative of a higher quality product.

This product does not appear to contain any of the common feline food allergens, however this is not a guarantee that dogs who suffer from allergies will by symptom-free while eating this food.

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Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 1160 dog foods in our database, Abound Grain Free Chicken, Chickpea & Sweet Potato Recipe has:

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

Chicken, Chickpeas, Ground Peas, Chicken Meal, Sweet Potato, Pea Starch, Chicken Fat (preserved With Mixed Tocopherols, Source Of Vitamin E), Flaxseed, Natural Flavor, Dicalcium Phosphate, Pumpkin, Yucca Schidegra Extract, Dried Chickory Root, Alfalfa Meal, Dried Cranberries, Blueberries, Kelp, Minerals (zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Magnesium Sulfate, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite, Iron Amino Acid Chelate, Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Copper Amino Acid Chelate), Vitamins (dl-alpha Tocopherol, Choline Chloride, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Niacin, D-calcium Pantothenate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride [source Of Vitamin B6], Riboflavin Supplement, Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement), Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product Dehydrated, Lactobaccillus Casei Fermentation Product Dehydrated, Bifidobacterium Thermophilum Fermentation Product Dehydrated, Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product Dehydrated.

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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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