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Canidae All Life Stages Dog Dry Food Chicken Meal & Rice Formula Review

Canidae 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.

Canidae All Life Stages Dog Dry Food Chicken Meal & Rice 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, Canidae All Life Stages Dog Dry Food Chicken Meal & Rice Formula's most plentiful ingredient listed is chicken meal, which is considered a quality protein source.

Additionally, Canidae All Life Stages Dog Dry Food Chicken Meal & Rice Formula also contains as top ingredients brown rice, white rice and rice bran. 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.

This product does not appear to contain any of the common feline food allergens, however this is not a guarantee that dogs who suffer from allergies will by symptom-free while eating this food.

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Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 1160 dog foods in our database, Canidae All Life Stages Dog Dry Food Chicken Meal & Rice Formula has:

• significantly less protein than average
• significantly more carbohydrates than average
• an average amount of fat
• 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

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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 21, 2017.

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Ingredients

Ingredients as published by the dog food manufacturer:

Chicken meal, brown rice, white rice, rice bran, cracked pearled barley, peas, chicken fat, millet, tomato pomace, natural flavor, flaxseed, potassium chloride, choline chloride, suncured alfalfa, inulin (from chicory root), lecithin, sage extract, cranberries, beta-carotene, rosemary extract, sunflower oil, yucca schidigera extract, dried enterococcus faecium fermentation product, dried lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product, dried lactobacillus casei fermentation product, dried lactobacillus plantarum fermentation product, dried trichoderma longibrachiatum fermentation extract, vitamins (vitamin E supplement, thiamine mononitrate, ascorbic acid, vitamin A supplement, biotin, niacin, calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), vitamin B12 supplement, riboflavin, vitamin D3 supplement, folic acid), minerals (iron proteinate, zinc proteinate, copper proteinate, ferrous sulfate, zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, potassium iodide, manganese proteinate, manganous oxide, manganese sulfate, sodium selenite), mixed tocopherols (a preservative), papaya, pineapple

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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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