Overall, Purina Pro Plan Savor Adult Beef & Rice Entrée is an average dog food, earning 6 out of a possible 10 paws based on its nutritional analysis and ingredient list.
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 Beef & Rice Entrée 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 Beef & Rice Entrée's most plentiful ingredient listed is beef, which is considered a quality protein source. It also contains chicken as additional quality protein sources. However, this product also lists meat by-products within its top ingredients. By-products are typically considered inferior, lesser quality ingredients.Please also be aware that this product contains guar gum and carrageenan, which are additives that some experts claim may be possible contributors to certain medical conditions in dogs.
Allergen alert: This product contains beef and meat by-products which may be problematic for dogs who suffer from beef or meat by-products food allergies.
Compared to the other 1160 dog foods in our database, Purina Pro Plan Savor Adult Beef & Rice Entrée has:
Using the calculations provided by the AAFCO, Purina Pro Plan Savor Adult Beef & Rice Entrée has approximately 102 calories per 100g (29 calories/ounce), which is compared to the average of the other wet 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 7, 2017.
Ingredients as published by the dog food manufacturer:
Beef, water sufficient for processing, liver, meat by-products, chicken, rice, guar gum, potassium chloride, added color, salt, carrageenan, calcium carbonate, Vitamin E supplement, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, choline chloride, niacin, thiamine mononitrate, copper sulfate, calcium pantothenate, manganese sulfate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, Vitamin B-12 supplement, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin A supplement, folic acid, potassium iodide, Vitamin D-3 supplement, biotin, and sodium selenite
Nutritional information as published by the dog food manufacturer.*
The manufacturer's published guaranteed analysis values normalized for moisture content.
*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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