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Orijen Regional Red (Canada) 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 Regional Red (Canada) 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 Regional Red (Canada)'s most plentiful ingredient listed is fresh angus beef meat, which is considered a quality protein source. It also contains fresh wild boar meat, fresh plains bison meat and fresh yorkshire pork meat 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 meat, fresh beef liver, fresh beef tripe, beef, beef fat, beef cartilage, beef liver, beef tripe, fresh or raw romney lamb meat, lamb, fresh lamb liver, fresh lamb tripe, lamb liver, lamb tripe, fresh whole pilchard, whole herring, whole sardine, herring oil and fresh whole eggs which may be problematic for dogs who suffer from beef, lamb, seafood or eggs food allergies.

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Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 1160 dog foods in our database, Orijen Regional Red (Canada) has:

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

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Ingredients

Ingredients as published by the dog food manufacturer:

Fresh angus beef meat, fresh wild boar meat, fresh plains bison meat, fresh or raw romney lamb meat, fresh yorkshire pork meat, fresh beef liver, fresh beef tripe, fresh whole pilchard, fresh whole eggs, fresh wild boar liver, lamb, beef, whole herring, mutton, pork, fresh lamb liver (3.5%), fresh lamb tripe (3.5%), whole sardine, fresh pork liver, whole red lentils, whole green lentils, whole green peas, lentil fiber, whole chickpeas, whole yellow peas, whole pinto beans, beef fat, pork fat, herring oil, beef cartilage, beef liver (freeze-dried), beef tripe (freeze-dried), lamb liver (freeze-dried), lamb tripe (freeze-dried), fresh whole pumpkin, fresh whole butternut squash, fresh whole zucchini, fresh whole parsnips, fresh carrots, fresh whole red delicious apples, fresh whole bartlett pears, fresh kale, fresh spinach, fresh beet greens, fresh turnip greens, brown kelp, whole cranberries, whole blueberries, whole saskatoon berries, chicory root, turmeric root, milk thistle, burdock root, lavender, marshmallow root, rosehips, Enterococcus faecium.

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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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