Victor Beef Meal & Brown Rice Review

Victor Dry Dog Food Review


Quick Analysis

Ingredients:

Nutrition:

Potential Allergens: beef

Est. Calories: 360 cal/100g

Price: $

Overall, Victor Beef Meal & Brown Rice is a significantly below average dog food, earning 4 out of a possible 10 paws based on its nutritional analysis and ingredient list.


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.

Victor Beef Meal & Brown Rice includes the following:

Quality Ingredients

  • beef meal
  • pork meal

Questionable Ingredients

  • whole grain brown rice

Potential Allergens

  • beef meal

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, Victor Beef Meal & Brown Rice's most plentiful ingredient listed is beef meal, which is considered a quality protein source. It also contains pork meal as additional quality protein sources.

Additionally, Victor Beef Meal & Brown Rice also contains as top ingredients whole grain brown rice. 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 beef meal which may be problematic for dogs who suffer from beef food allergies.



Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 1160 dog foods in our database, Victor Beef Meal & Brown Rice has:

  • significantly less protein than average
  • significantly more carbohydrates than average
  • significantly less fat than average
  • less 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

Using the calculations provided by the AAFCO, Victor Beef Meal & Brown Rice has approximately 360 calories per 100g (102 calories/ounce), which is an average amount of calories compared to the average of the other dry dog foods in the DogFoodDB.


All the product information on this page is based on data collected from the manufacturer's product website as retrieved on May 22, 2017.


Ingredients

Ingredients as published by the dog food manufacturer:

Beef Meal, Whole Grain Brown Rice, Whole Grain Millet, Grain Sorghum, Pork Meal, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols), Dehydrated Alfalfa Meal, Flax Seed (source of Omega 3 Fatty Acid), Feeding Oat Meal, Yeast Culture, Natural Chicken Flavor, Potassium Chloride, Dried Kelp, Salt, Montmorillonite, Tomato Pomace (source of Lycopene), Dried Carrot, Choline Chloride, Dried Chicory Root, Taurine, Zinc Amino Acid Complex, Hydrolyzed Yeast, Vitamin E Supplement, Iron Amino Acid Complex, Manganese Amino Acid Complex, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Selenium Yeast, L-Carnitine, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D Supplement, Copper Sulfate, Vitamin B-12 Supplement, Niacin Supplement, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Biotin, Magnesium Amino Acid Chelate, Riboflavin Supplement, Calcium Iodate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Lecithin, Fructooligosaccharide, Folic Acid, Dried Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dried Aspergillus Niger Fermentation Product, Dried Bacillus Subtilis Fermentation Product, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Citric Acid, Rosemary Extract.


Guaranteed Analysis

Nutritional information as published by the dog food manufacturer.*

Protein: (min)
23.0%
Fat: (min)
11.0%
Fiber: (max)
4.0%
Carbs: (est)
53.0%
Ash: (est)
0.0%
Moisture: (max)
9.0%

Dry Matter Analysis

The manufacturer's published guaranteed analysis values normalized for moisture content.

Protein: (min)
25%
Fat: (min)
12%
Fiber: (max)
4%
Carbs: (est)
58%
Ash: (est)
0%
Calories: (est)
360/100g

*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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