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Acana Classic Red 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.

Acana Classic Red 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, Acana Classic Red's most plentiful ingredient listed is lamb meat meal, which is considered a quality protein source. It also contains fresh angus beef and fresh yorkshire pork 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.

Allergen alert: This product contains fresh angus beef, fresh beef liver, fresh beef tripe, freeze-dried beef liver, lamb meat meal, lamb fat, raw grass-fed lamb and herring oil which may be problematic for dogs who suffer from beef, lamb or seafood food allergies.

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Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 1160 dog foods in our database, Acana Classic Red has:

• less protein than average
• an average amount of carbohydrates
• an average amount of fat
• an average amount of fiber

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 July 18, 2018.

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Ingredients

Ingredients as published by the dog food manufacturer:

Lamb meat meal, steel-cut oats, fresh angus beef, fresh yorkshire pork, lamb fat, whole red lentils, whole green peas,whole green lentils, raw grass-fed lamb, whole oats, fresh beef liver, pork meat meal, herring oil, fresh pork liver, wholegarbanzo beans, whole yellow peas, sun-cured alfalfa, lentil fiber, fresh beef tripe, dried brown kelp, fresh pumpkin, fresh butternut squash,fresh parsnips, fresh green kale, fresh spinach, fresh carrots, fresh red delicious apples, fresh bartlett pears, freeze-dried beef liver, fresh cranberries, fresh blueberries, chicory root, turmeric root, milk thistle, burdock root, lavender, marshmallow root, rosehips

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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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