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Orijen Fit & Trim (USA) Review

Orijen 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.

Orijen Fit & Trim (USA) 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, Orijen Fit & Trim (USA)'s most plentiful ingredient listed is deboned chicken, which is considered a quality protein source. It also contains chicken liver, turkey liver and cod liver 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 cod liver, arrowtooth flounder, whole atlantic herring, dehydrated sardine, herring oil, freeze-dried cod liver and whole eggs which may be problematic for dogs who suffer from seafood or eggs food allergies.

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Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 1160 dog foods in our database, Orijen Fit & Trim (USA) has:

• significantly more protein than average
• significantly fewer carbohydrates than average
• significantly less fat than average
• significantly 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 April 16, 2017.

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Ingredients

Ingredients as published by the dog food manufacturer:

Deboned chicken, chicken liver, turkey liver, cod liver, whole eggs, arrowtooth flounder, deboned turkey, whole atlantic herring, chicken heart, turkey heart, dehydrated chicken liver, dehydrated turkey liver, dehydrated sardine, dehydrated chicken, dehydrated turkey, whole green peas, whole red lentils, whole chickpeas, whole green lentils, carrot fiber, pea fiber, apple fiber, whole pinto beans, whole navy beans, natural chicken flavor, ground chicken bone and cartilage, dehydrated pumpkin, dehydrated butternut squash, herring oil, lentil fiber, dried kelp, freeze-dried chicken liver, freeze-dried turkey liver, freeze-dried cod liver, whole pumpkin, whole butternut squash, kale, spinach, mustard greens, collard greens, turnip greens, whole carrots, whole red delicious apples, whole bartlett pears, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, zinc proteinate, mixed tocopherols (preservative), copper proteinate, chicory root, turmeric, sarsaparilla root, althea root, rosehips, juniper berries, dried lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product, dried bifidobacterium animalis fermentation product, dried lactobacillus casei 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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