If you're concerned about proper canine nutrition, ingredient quality, allergies, nutrition profiles, weight loss or simply feeding your finicky pooch, the DogFoodDB is the perfect research tool to help you find the best dog foods - the ones that meet your dog's individual needs.
DogFoodDB: Decoding nutrition labels so you don't have to!
According to their website, Merrick promises to only use the freshest, highest-quality ingredients from farmers and ranchers they know and trust.
Overall, with 62 varieties reviewed producing an average score of 6.9 / 10 paws, Merrick is a an above average overall dog food brand when compared to all others brands in our database.
However, due to the nature of their ingredient composition dry foods typically score differently than wet foods on average. Hence, it's often helpful to break down the ratings into wet and dry food categories in order to get a more complete understanding of how the brand rates.
Of these 62 products, 43 are wet foods. These wet foods scored on average 6.9 / 10 paws, making Merrick an average wet dog food brand when compared against all other wet food manufacturer's products.
Hence, the remaining 19 products are dry foods, and scored an average of of 6.7 / 10 paws, making Merrick an above average dry dog food brand when compared against all other dry food manufacturer's products.
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At DogFoodDB, we calculate two ratings for each product. These values are then combined to create the the overall product score.
The first rating is based on the product's ingredient list. Each dog food product is assigned a value from (low) to (high) paws. Generally speaking, higher ratings are rewarded to those products that contain quality proteins and limit the amount of cheap fillers in their most plentiful ingredients.
The second rating is based on our analysis of the product's published nutritional information. Higher rated products will contain more protein and fewer carbohydrates than average. Each product is assigned a score from to paws based on this nutritional analysis. Please note that the nutritional values used are only an approximation and may not represent "as fed" values due to variations in manufacturing and the laws that specify how these values are reported.
Finally, the nutrition and ingredient ratings are added together to create a score ranging from 1 - 10 paws for the evaluated product.
Please note that although a high score may be indicative of a higher-quality product it is not a guarantee. Similarly, a low score does not necessarily indicate an inferior product. The best food for your dog is the one that meets their individual needs.
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