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Purina Pro Plan Natural Plus Essential Vitamins And Minerals - Adult Grain Free Lamb & Egg Formula Review

Purina Pro Plan 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.

Purina Pro Plan Natural Plus Essential Vitamins And Minerals - Adult Grain Free Lamb & Egg Formula 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, Purina Pro Plan Natural Plus Essential Vitamins And Minerals - Adult Grain Free Lamb & Egg Formula's most plentiful ingredient listed is lamb, which is considered a quality protein source. It also contains chicken meal as additional quality protein sources.

Additionally, Purina Pro Plan Natural Plus Essential Vitamins And Minerals - Adult Grain Free Lamb & Egg Formula also contains as top ingredients pea starch and cassava root flour. 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 lamb, fish oil and dried egg product which may be problematic for dogs who suffer from lamb, seafood or eggs food allergies.

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Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 1160 dog foods in our database, Purina Pro Plan Natural Plus Essential Vitamins And Minerals - Adult Grain Free Lamb & Egg Formula has:

• significantly less protein than average
• more carbohydrates than average
• an average amount of fat
• 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 May 7, 2017.

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Ingredients

Ingredients as published by the dog food manufacturer:

Lamb, chicken meal, pea starch, canola meal, cassava root flour, dried egg product, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), dried beet pulp, pea fiber, brewers dried yeast, natural flavor, fish oil, mono and dicalcium phosphate, salt, potassium chloride, Vitamin E supplement, zinc proteinate, choline chloride, manganese proteinate, ferrous sulfate, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of Vitamin C), copper proteinate, niacin, Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, Vitamin B-12 supplement, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin supplement, calcium iodate, Vitamin D-3 supplement, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), folic acid, biotin, and sodium selenite

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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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