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Purina Pro Plan Savor Adult Shredded Blend Weight Management 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 Savor Adult Shredded Blend Weight Management 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 Savor Adult Shredded Blend Weight Management Formula's most plentiful ingredient listed is chicken, which is considered a quality protein source.

However, this product also lists poultry by-product meal within its top ingredients. By-products are typically considered inferior, lesser quality ingredients.

Additionally, Purina Pro Plan Savor Adult Shredded Blend Weight Management Formula also contains as top ingredients brewers rice, whole grain corn and corn germ meal. 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 fish meal, whole grain corn, corn germ meal, corn gluten meal and soybean meal which may be problematic for dogs who suffer from seafood, corn or soy food allergies.

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Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 1160 dog foods in our database, Purina Pro Plan Savor Adult Shredded Blend Weight Management Formula has:

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

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Ingredients

Ingredients as published by the dog food manufacturer:

Chicken, brewers rice, whole grain corn, corn germ meal, poultry by-product meal (source of glucosamine), soybean meal, wheat flour, whole grain wheat, corn gluten meal, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), fish meal (source of glucosamine), animal digest, glycerin, wheat bran, calcium carbonate, salt, mono and dicalcium phosphate, Vitamin E supplement, choline chloride, zinc proteinate, potassium chloride, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, manganese proteinate, ferrous sulfate, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of Vitamin C), sulfur, niacin, copper proteinate, Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, garlic oil, folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, calcium iodate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), 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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